"When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman."

-- Joseph Wood Krutch

#Nature Quotes #Men Quotes #Animal Quotes

“Silence is the language of inertia.”
“As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.”
“Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.”
“Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?”
“Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life”
“How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more or less every week. Howie Long once gave a great explanation of what it was like to get beat by quarterback legend Joe Montana. He said it was like getting knocked out in a pillow fight. You never felt the blow. And you were all kinds of mad afterward. That's as good as any description of Daniel. ... So what does Daniel do? Something right. On every play. In chess, grandmasters will tell you that it's the most innocuous-looking moves that are deadliest.”
“For me, climbing is a form of exploration that inspires me to confront my own inner nature within nature. Itâ€™s a means of experiencing a state of consciousness where there are no distractions or expectations. This intuitive state of being is what allows me to experience moments of true freedom and harmony.”
“When we hold it (amber) in our hands, we hold also that furious epoch where rioted all monsters and poisons, where death fecundated and life destroyed, where superabundance demanded such existences, no souls, but fiercest animal fire - just for that I hate it!”

Source : Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Alfred Bendixen (1989). “The Amber Gods, and Other Stories”, p.56, Rutgers University Press

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