"We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death.""

-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Life Quotes #Dna Quotes #Giving Quotes

“It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.”
“Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.”

Source : "Talulla Rising". Book by Glen Duncan, March 21, 2012.
“It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.”
“When I was younger I would have told you it was my genius, but now I don't believe that for a second. Music just comes out of you, it flows through, it's weird. If you think about it intellectually, how does someone come up with two hundred riffs over their life time?”
“I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.”
“If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.”
“I'd catch moonlight in a bottle, if we could drink a toast to happiness.”

Source : Song: That's Not How It Is, Album: Unleashed, 2002
“One of my favorite things as an engineer is watching a band get comfortable in the studio and getting a great take. Like, they're playing the song, warming up, and then suddenly, the communication really happens and everybody's really in the song, and they nail it, and then that's the take.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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