"Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last."

-- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#Men Quotes #Bird Quotes #Silence Quotes

“A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.”
“More people live off cancer than die from it.”
“If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.”
“I wish I had time to do more reading, but I just haven't had much time. But I still find time for writing. I've always preferred writing over reading, even though those things do go hand in hand. But when I do have time, even if it's not writing music, just writing in general - ideas and stories and things like that.”

Source : "Youth Lagoon: Out Of The House, Into The Bughouse". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 5, 2013.
“The coming cooling of the planet overall will return it to where it was in the '60s, '70s, and '80s.”
“Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.”

Source : 'The Kingdom of God' (1913)
“Greed will always leave you dissatisfied because you'll never be able to get everything you desire. Greed never allows you to think you have enough; it always destroys you by making you strive ever harder for more.”

Source : Benjamin Blech (2003). “Taking Stock: A Spiritual Guide to Rising Above Life's Financial Ups and Downs”, p.135, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
“When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.”

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