"I am a woodlander, I have sap in my veins."

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Source : Roger Deakin (2009). “Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Roger Deakin

#Sap Quotes #Veins Quotes

“Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not to suggest Southern women are disingenuous cream puffs. Quite the opposite. When you are born into a history as loaded as the Southâ€™s, when you carry in your bones the incontrovertible knowledge of manâ€™s violence and limitations, daring to stay sweet is about the most radical thing you can do.”
“Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.”
“An intelligence service is the ideal vehicle for a conspiracy.”
“I don't eat chicken abortions!”

Source : Cecily Von Ziegesar (2003). “You Know You Love Me: A Gossip Girl Novel”, p.153, A&C Black
“I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.”
“I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.”
“Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.”
“I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.”

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