"When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to do with us. The grace is in the separation, the distance, the sense of a self-sustaining way of life."

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Source : Verlyn Klinkenborg (2013). “More Scenes from the Rural Life”, p.81, Princeton Architectural Press

Verlyn Klinkenborg

#Distance Quotes #Mean Quotes #Self Quotes

“There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.”
“Youth should learn to think and act as a mass.Â It is criminal to think as individuals!”
“The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.”

Source : Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.107, Library of America
“Believe in yourself and have confidence that you can compete against all odds. Have a vision of what you'd like to accomplish and be able to articulate that vision.”
“Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.”

Source : "The Columbia Book of Quotations" edited by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, (p. 900), 1993.
“Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.”
“And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!”
“No matter what kind of diet you are on, you can usually eat as much as you want of anything you don't like.”

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