"It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog."

-- Sy Montgomery

#Bullying Quotes #Nature Quotes #Children Quotes

“No one can upset you, unless you give them permission.”
“An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.”
“I think it's a great city. I think it's a fabulous city. But in my young juvenile days, I was an idiot, and I bought 30 cars. And I need to drive those cars, and New York isn't really the place you can do that.”
“Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.”
“A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.”
“Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.”

Source : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, Faber & Faber
“The world is your playground - play with a sense of destiny.”
“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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