"Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew."

-- Edna Ferber

#Savages Quotes #Taming Quotes #Shrews Quotes

“This influential, yet controversial idea requires that the mixture of species on Earth at any moment acts as a collective organism that continuously (yet unwittingly) tunes Earth's atmospheric composition and climate to promote the presence of life... But I'd bet there are some dead Martians and Venusians who advanced the same theory about their own planets a billion years ago.”
“My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.”
“There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.”

Source : "Ray LaMontagne: Digging Deep And Doing What He Does" by Ellen Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2010.
“I'm stoned on my music. I'm intoxicated by my joyful calendar between the tours, and the hunting, and the charity work, and the family time, and just my lifestyle living on a ranch in Texas and back when I lived on my ranch in Michigan. It's the epitome of individual independence, self-sufficiency, hands-on, earthly celebration and we tour every summer like complete animals.”
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
“As long as there is death, there is hope”
“Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.”
“Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.”

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