"In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop."

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Source : Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”

Deborah Tall

#Nature Quotes #Vacation Quotes #Play Quotes

“The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.”
“My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.”
“My hope is that digital technology will level things out more and that it will eventually eliminate favoritism. But technology cannot do it alone. The audience has to become more discriminating as well and not buy into every big tentpole movie because they have been brainwashed into thinking that's the movie to see.”
“I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.”
“I think if we have a policy of zero violence, it won't be met, but the policy of getting the Iraqis in the fight and marginalizing those who are trying to stir up trouble will be effective.”
“Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.”
“the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”
“When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.”

Source : Second Annual Message, December 1886.

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