"For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant . . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says."

-- Janine Benyus

#Nature Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.”

Source : "Mary Tyler Moore's Lifetime of Challenges". Interview with Kevin Sessums, parade.com. March 22, 2009.
“There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, wonâ€™t let us look anywhere else in the room if thereâ€™s a map on the wall.”

Source : Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“[Drug] Addiction is awful, the worst if it is your kid. Plenty of loving parents who did everything "right" find themselves with kids caught up with drugs, and plenty of absentee parents have kids who never touch the stuff.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.”
“He does kiss like a pirate though, I was able to re-affirm that.”
“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.”
“The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarineâ€”guns get a pass. Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost.”
“I've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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