"To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination."

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George Schaller

#Memories Quotes #Rhythm Of Life Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.”
“True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.”
“Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (2013). “Human Voices”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.”

Source : Anthony Lane (2009). “Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker”, p.651, Vintage
“I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.”
“You do have the idea of being â€˜just good friends?â€™â€ He gave her a sideways look. â€œFor so high and honorable an estate,â€ Roshaun said, â€œ â€˜justâ€™ seems a poor modifier to choose.”
“What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what gets you out if bed in the mornings, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.”
“There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.”

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