"The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner."

-- John Muir

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“Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to convert his mother's restrictions and prohibitions into the rules for behavior that will belong to him.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone
“Without doubt, in animation each frame is important, every movement defines the character.”
“Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger groupÂ Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.”
“The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to heaven, one that falls; and leave you, not at home in either one, not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses, not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes a star each night, and rises; and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel) your life, with its immensity and fear, so that, now bounded, now immeasurable it is alternately stone in you and star.”
“The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.”
“Nothing can make me madder than lawyers who don't care about others.”
“The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.”
“Cannibals are devouring senators.”

Source : "Face to Face" with Bill Plante, www.cbsnews.com. March 21, 2012.

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