Quotes
Authors
Joseph Dalton Hooker

"I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of rhodods. with Pines below me as thick & bad to get through as our Fuegian Fagi on the hill tops, & except the towering peaks of P. S. that, here shoot up on all hands there is little difference in the mt sceneryÂ—here however the blaze of Rhod. flowers and various colored jungle proclaims a differently constituted region in a naturalists eye & twenty species here, to one there, always are asking me the vexed question, where do we come from?"

-- Joseph Dalton Hooker

#Flower Quotes #Eye Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law... There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations.”
“Sometimes I think to myself, what should James Franco say next? And then it comes to me. Boobs.”
“Thatâ€™s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a childâ€™s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didnâ€™t matter. Death didnâ€™t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.”
“Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.”

Source : William Bartram (2012). “Travels of William Bartram”, p.42, Courier Corporation
“Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.”
“I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And if this is only the consolation of a heart in its necessity, or that easy faith born of despair, it does not matter, since it gives us courage somehow to face the mornings. Which is as much as the heart can ask at times.”
“Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.”
“The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.”

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