"English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees have souls. Trees are 'who,' not 'what."

-- Tomson Highway

#Nature Quotes #Animal Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.”
“I'm from Cleveland. I like thunderstorms; I like a little rain in my life.”

Source : "Interview: Mike Mizanin and Francia Raisa Talk Christmas Bounty". Press Conference, www.shockya.com. November 26, 2013.
“A flower won't open if I yell at it and say â€œBloom!”
“There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood.”
“If you have no interest in actually committing yourself to an actual group of gospel-believing, Bible-teaching Christians, you might question whether you belong to the body of Christ at all!”
“From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.”

Source : Judy Grahn (2009). “The Judy Grahn Reader”
“Alexia had spent long hours wondering over that mustache. Werewolves did not grow hair, as they did not age. Where had it come from? Had he always had it? For how many centuries had his poor abused upper lip labored under the burden of such vegetation?”
“In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature of scientific activity, and where the primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage.”

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