"We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves."

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Source : Gary Paul Nabhan (1994). “The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places”, Beacon Press (MA)

Gary Paul Nabhan

#Fate Quotes #Land Quotes #Needs Quotes

“By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth.”
“Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.”

Source : "The making of a golden boy" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2005.
“I think Iâ€™m quite a lazy person, actually. If Iâ€™m not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.”
“Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.”

Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
“"What kind of world do we live in? Why are we applauding this guy's abs?" I mean, no offense to Michael Phelps. We like him. But he's not smart. He hasn't invented anything or saved people's lives. He's a guy with abs, and we celebrate these abs.”

Source : "The Pressure Cooker as Transcendence". Interview with David L. Ulin, believermagblog.wordpress.com. January 15, 2014.
“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.”

Source : Russell L. Ackoff (1986). “Management in Small Doses”, Wiley
“I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne.”

Source : George Gascoigne, John W. Cunliffe (2012). “The Complete Works of George Gascoigne: Volume 1, The Posies”, p.468, Cambridge University Press
“To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more â€˜spiritualâ€™ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.”

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