"In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they reach Venezuela. Sandpipers, plovers, and broad-winged hawks have already left for Patagonia and Panama. Bats are headed for caves in Kentucky and Tennessee. Out in the Atlantic, humpback whales pass by on their way to the Caribbean. Even now, Canada geese are honking toward us from Quebec. It is a good day for the beginnings of journeys.Every time I look at you, I think, Now I cannot die."

Source : Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.7, Da Capo Press

Sandra Steingraber

#Good Day Quotes #Journey Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as the foundation of medical science. ... Statistics ... apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still [uncertain or] indeterminate. ... There will always be some indeterminism ... in all the sciences, and more in medicine than in any other. But man's intellectual conquest consists in lessening and driving back indeterminism in proportion as he gains ground for determinism by the help of the experimental method..”
“Now people are really inspired to do a lot, and the fire got lit under our ***** to be more politically aware and be more politically involved in our community and pay more attention to what's going on.”
“I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.”
“Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.”
“Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.”
“Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.”

Source : Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.3, Algonquin Books
“How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?”

Source : Louise Meriwether (2002). “Daddy was a Number Runner”, p.55, Feminist Press at CUNY

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