"My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in â€¦ the little town in which I grew up. â€¦ Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world â€¦ of lava rock and sagebrush desert. â€¦ I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since."

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Source : Richard McKenna (1972). “New eyes for old: nonfiction writings”, John F Blair Pub

Richard McKenna

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“Starlet sex scandal. Giant squid involved.”
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
“Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.”
“I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.”
“A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.”
“There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma.”
“parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.”
“O medo corta mais profundamente do que as espadas.”

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