"what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything."

-- Bill McKibben

#Zoos Quotes #Animal Quotes #Exotic Quotes

“I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.”
“Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students to become people who think and live freely, yet at the same time we know that helping them become free requires us to restrict their freedom in certain situations.”
“I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.”

Source : "The Marines' Bulletin", Vol. 1, Issues 1-3, 1918.
“I think there is limits to the assumption that wherever you are, the situation in a way tells you how to behave.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I think every red-blooded male enjoys brandishing a firearm.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.”
“If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, (...) you nail it down (...). So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".”

Source : Oral History Project Interview, California Institute of Technology Archives, pp. 76-77, oralhistories.library.caltech.edu. 1978.
“To me, pain means you're pushing your body to give you everything its got.”

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