"Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream, to get in touch with yourself...To putter is to discover."

-- Alexandra Stoddard

#Dream Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes #Esteem Quotes

“You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.”
“Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.”
“Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.”
“Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.”
“Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace: 'It is impossible that old prejudices and hostilities should longer exist, while such an instrument has been created for the exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth.'”
“We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.”

Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2007). “Axis”, p.235, Macmillan
“'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.”
“The beginning of evil is heedlessness.”

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