"As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual has become adapted; and almost everything is unnatural outside his range of adaptation. Harmonious equilibrium with nature is an abstract concept with a Platonic beauty but lacking the flesh and blood of life. It fails, in particular, to convey the creative emergent quality of human existence."

-- Rene Dubos

#Life Quotes #Home Quotes #Blood Quotes

“You can either buy shoes or paint.”
“Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.”
“Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.”
“My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.”

Source : "'I've always had a sense of the unworthiness of myself'". Interview With Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2006.
“What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?”

Source : James K. A. Smith (2009). “Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation”, p.18, Baker Academic
“Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.”
“We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.”

Source : H. H. Asquith's Address to the House of Commons on the declaration of war with Germany, api.parliament.uk. August 6, 1914.
“Design has a powerful impact on the viewer. It has authority, and data also has the same air of authenticity and detail. It can be hard to argue with a graph, and it's hard to argue with data. So to combine data with a strong visual impact creates a powerful message.”

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