"There's more truth about a camp than a house. Planning laws need not worry the improvising builder because temporary structures are more beautiful anyway, and you don't need permission for them. There's more truth about a camp because that is the position we are in. The house represents what we ourselves would like to be on earth: permanent, rooted, here for eternity. But a camp represents the true reality of things: we're just passing through."

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Source : "Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees".

Roger Deakin

#Beautiful Quotes #Reality Quotes #Law Quotes

“So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.”
“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.”

Source : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with lexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.
“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.”
“When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.”

Source : David Baldacci (2010). “True Blue”, p.239, Pan Macmillan
“Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.”
“Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.”

Source : Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.276, Oxford University Press on Demand
“I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.”
“There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.”

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