"The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components."

-- Thomas Berry

#Thinking Quotes #Community Quotes #Earth Quotes

“You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time youâ€™d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldnâ€™t know the outcome for a long time.”

Source : Meg Wolitzer (2008). “The Ten-Year Nap”, p.375, Penguin
“As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.”
“I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.”
“I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.”
“Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.”
“I looked Death right in the face.”
“This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?”
“The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice.”

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