Frederick Law Olmsted famous quotes

04-29-2025

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.
Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.
Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule
It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

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