"I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi."

-- Derrick Jensen

#Lying Quotes #Tree Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.”
“I cried over beautiful things, knowing no beautiful thing lasts.”
“Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.”
“To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.”
“Thereâ€™s no such thing as being totally â€˜foundâ€™â€¦the fun, I think, is in the searching.”
“My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute force.â€â€¢ General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha on German South West Africa â€œAt the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction, it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr
“Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.”
“The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own honest, unique opinion.”

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