"Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'"

-- Ian Dunbar

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“Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends - truly knows - that where there was a garden once, it can be again, or where there never was, there yet can be a garden.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.3, Indiana University Press
“My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.”
“When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.”
“Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spiritâ€™s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.”
“We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have sought its acquaintance wherever we could find it. And in this growing intimacy we have become increasingly impressed with the influence that this and other infectious diseases, which span - in their protoplasmic continuities - the entire history of mankind, have had upon the fates of men.”

Source : Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.6, Transaction Publishers
“Marketing is the devil.”
“I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.”

Source : "Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy" by Dalya Alberge, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2011.
“An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.”

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