"Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest."

-- Hal Borland

#Orange Quotes #Rose Quotes #Woods Quotes

“We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.”

Source : William Barnes (1869). “Poems of Rural Life in Common English”, p.132
“Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.”
“I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You canâ€™t change the mind with the mind alone, or weâ€™d all be enlightened”
“The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.”
“I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.”

Source : "Just a Guy Who Plays Drums: An Interview with Bill Kreutzmann". Interview with Sarah Bruner, www.jambands.com. March 15, 1999.
“Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I would walk until I had walked all the life out of me, and when I fell, I would die that much closer to home.”

Source : Nando Parrado (2009). “Miracle In The Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home”, p.115, Hachette UK

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