"Acoustic ecology is the study of information systems: the shared acoustic environment and how species send and receive messages in this shared acoustic environment. What these messages mean - meaning, what are the consequences and the changes of behavior in any species. And it has as much to do with us individually and biologically as it does with the shaping of cultures and beliefs."

-- Gordon Hempton

#Mean Quotes #Culture Quotes #Belief Quotes

“Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.”
“Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.”
“Government caters to those screaming the loudest, regardless of what they're screaming about. In business, it's exactly the opposite! You invest more in the most successful departments, and less in those that aren't performing.”
“The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”
“I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.”
“Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.”
“Kabuto: It's always easier said than done. I just said that this jutsu had no weaknesses or risk... Itachi: Every jutsu has its weakness. This jutsu's weakness and risk is...the existence of me!”
“There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.”

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