"I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely andentirely from an independent study of the plants themselves."

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Source : "Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I".

Joseph Dalton Hooker

#Independent Quotes #Views Quotes #Years Quotes

“I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.”
“Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.”
“The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.”
“You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.”
“Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a legion upon the dark rooftops. The wind came down from the north like a runner in lacrosse, violent and hard, to batter every living thing. They were there, each one alone in conversation with the stars, mining ephemeral love from cold and distant light.”
“For now ACID Kreationz has only one body and that's me. I have intentions of hiring persons when I am through with university. For now it is only me but off and on I contract sound producers and other persons when the need arises.”
“I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money”
“I was living in Germany in the thirties, and I knew that Hitler had made it his mission to exterminate all Jews, especially the children and the women who could bear children in the future. I was unable to save my people, only their memory.”

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