"I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that."

-- Sam Abell

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“Greatness breaks laws.”
“There's a popular misconception that property boundaries are based on coordinates that surveyors can simply "walk to" with our instruments. The reality is that, while physical coordination of monuments is easier than it's ever been, property boundaries often need to be determined based on evidence and plans that are old, decrepit, and done with different technology and expectations than we have today.”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.
“I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food.”
“A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets him ... Every passing coachman called out to me: "Do you want to ride on the outside?" If I met only a farm worker on a horse he would say to me companionably "Warm walking sir," and when I passed through a village the old women in their bewilderment would let out a "God Almighty!”
“I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
“If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from our earliest beginnings, savored at every possible opportunity and even some quite incomprehensible ones ...”
“How ridiculous it is to waste our lives experimenting with those things for which we already have the answers!”
“The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light , never put out the stars . It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness .”

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