"Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests."

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Source : "Cities in Evolution".

Patrick Geddes

#Animal Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.”
“I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do.”
“In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.”

Source : "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.
“Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.”
“We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.”
“Everything to do with time is hideous.”

Source : Robert Aickman (2014). “Cold Hand in Mine”, p.203, Faber & Faber
“Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.”
“As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.”

Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.69, Transaction Publishers

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