"We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace."

-- David Sobel

#Nature Quotes #Children Quotes #Spring Quotes

“Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.”
“In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.”
“He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.”
“That's how oppression works. Thousands of otherwise decent people are persuaded to go along with an unfair system because changing it seems like too much bother. The appropriate response when somebody demands a change in that unfair system is to listen, rather than turn away or yell, as a child might, that it's not your fault. Of course it isn't your fault. I'm sure you're lovely. That doesn't mean you don't have a responsibility to do something about it.”
“The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day”
“Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.”

Source : Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.73
“I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.”
“Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.”

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