"The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now."

-- George Perkins Marsh

#Tree Quotes #Forests Quotes #Improvement Quotes

“There's four seasons in the UK, spring, autumn, winter and winter.”
“You are richer for doing things.”
“The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.”
“But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their consciousness. Nearly all the time ... they ... act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true.... Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call "unscientific," using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate slightly phony.”
“I can't believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It's just so enlightening to me.”
“For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.”
“I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.”
“People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.”

Source : Michael Gruber (2010). “The Good Son: A Novel”, p.93, Henry Holt and Company

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