"The sea is as near as we come to another world."

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Source : Anne Stevenson (2005). “Poems 1955-2005”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

Anne Stevenson

#Ocean Quotes #Sea Quotes #World Quotes

“The history of lead is a history of neglect. It's a history of decisions on our part not to address the broad implications of what we did to ourselves during the industrial revolution and in the first part of the century when our cities expanded broadly, when we built our housing and we began to depend upon lead as a mainstay of our new industrial culture. We put this stuff in even though we knew it was dangerous, we knew it was going to hurt kids.”

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“I was always taught to be hungry and humble.”
“We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.”

Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1943). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.61, Courier Corporation
“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.”
“The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech”
“The need to assure that every child has the opportunity afforded by good teachers is urgent. As urgent as the need to be well nourished and for exactly the same reason. A child's growth depends on it.”
“Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.”
“Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.”

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