"My photographs recall the memories of the human race."

-- John Coplans

#Memories Quotes #Race Quotes #Photograph Quotes

“You should only confide your secrets to someone who has not tried to guess them.”
“The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.”

Source : Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside
“But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.”
“I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.”

Source : Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
“A man is always better than he thinks.”
“Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.”
“We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
“When you're immersed in something, you can't look away from it.”

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