"Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky."

-- Bill McKibben

#Ocean Quotes #Night Quotes #Sky Quotes

“We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are”
“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.”
“Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.”
“Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that”
“But at the same time you can't...”
“Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.”
“Now, I’m not even saying that girls shouldn’t have princesses in their lives, the archetype in and of itself is not innately wrong, but there should be more options to choose from. So that was my intent, to demonstrate how ridiculous it is to paint an entire gender of heroes with one superficial brush.”
“Hope springs eternal, even in politics.”

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