"This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live."

-- Patrick Geddes

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“I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.”
“I believe that people would be happier sharing things and being much more of a collective rather than working from these neo-liberal ideas of just looking after yourself. I think people need each other.”

Source : "The Knife". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 26, 2013.
“Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.”
“[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.”
“Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.”
“I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.”
“You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.”
“I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.”

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