"There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit."

-- Victor Hugo

#Fall Quotes #Tree Quotes #Branches Quotes

“Every race is totally different.”
“Endangered species are our friends.”
“I would have to say that working on 'Warrior' felt more like working on a play than any other film I've ever done.”
“Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.”
“If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.”

Source : "This business is hard and really mean" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2009.
“Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader.”
“the house protects the dreamer; the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace. Guests we've had stop in for a night or two all come down the first morning, ready to tell their dreams.”

Source : Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.34, Penguin
“The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.”

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