"In Alaska, the beaches are slumping so much, people are having to move houses. In Tuktoyaktuk, the land is starting to go under water. The glaciers are melting and the permafrost is melting. There are new species of birds and fish and insects showing up. The Arctic is a barometer for the health of the world. If you want to know how healthy the world is, come to the Arctic and feel its pulse."

-- Sheila Watt-Cloutier

#Beach Quotes #Moving Quotes #Land Quotes

“They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.”
“My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.”
“No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track baby I was born to survive.”
“Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.”
“If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...”
“When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise. You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.”
“Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.”
“I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.”

Source : Linda S. Ferber, Asher Brown Durand (2007). “Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape”, D Giles Ltd

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