"Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind."

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Source : David Rains Wallace (1978). “The Dark Range: A Naturalist's Night Notebook”, Random House (NY)

#Civilization Quotes #Mind Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.”
“I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!”

Source : "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.
“If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance.”
“Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.”
“Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we're never going to have a stable climate and that's what our goal is for human civilization to thrive, a stable climate. We don't want one that's hotter, we don't want one that's colder, we want one that's stable.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.”
“Any time I get to go home is a joyous occasion.”
“I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.”

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