"We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow."

-- Rachel Carson

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.”
“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.”
“We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.”
“The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The State originated in conquest and confiscation, as a device for maintaining the stratification of society permanently into two classes-an owning and exploiting class, relatively small, and a propertyless dependent class. . . . No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose than to enable the continuous economic exploitation of one class by another.”
“Anthologies are mischievous things. Some years ago there was a rage for chemically predigested food, which was only suppressed when doctors pointed out that since human beings had been given teeth and digestive organs they had to be used or they degenerated very rapidly. Anthologies are predigested food for the brain.”
“Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.”
“And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.”
“Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.”

Source : Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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