"I'm one of the few people in this world who can do anything I choose. I can't tell you how good I'm feeling."

“...Skyscraper National Park”

“Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must.”

“What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that.”

“Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.”

Source : Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #5: Lady Friday”, p.301, Scholastic Inc.

“Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.”

“The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.”

“There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.”

“To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.”

Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.38, Penn State Press