"We belong to no cult. We are not Nature Lovers. We don't love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is simply something indispensable, like air and light and water, that we accept as necessary to living, and the nearer we can get to it the happier we are."

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Source : Louise (Dickinson) Rich (1971). “The peninsula”

Louise Dickinson Rich

#Life Quotes #Light Quotes #Air Quotes

“Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it.”
“Spring One. Spring One. I am Eagle. I am Eagle. I can hear you very well. I feel excellent. My feeling is excellent.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". Message from Vostok II, www.imdb.com. August 1961.
“He who cannot love must learn to flatter.”
“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”
“Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling, "Will you look at that golf path?Pure pea gravel."”
“The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities”

Source : Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.116, Litres
“The only way to learn is by changing your mind.”
“I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!”

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