"Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall."

-- Barry Lopez

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“Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.”

Source : "Childhood and Society". Book by Erik Erikson, 1950.
“This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few....”
“Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.”
“The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.”
“I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.”
“Sometimes I stress too much and don't have fun. If you're trying to be perfect, sometimes it backfires on you.”
“When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.”
“Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.”

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