"We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Sea Quotes #Land Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone has something to offer the movement of justice”
“Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!”
“Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.”

Source : Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)
“Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.”
“Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to observe, and to give an account of the wandering and uncertain paths of vapours floating in the Ether.”
“Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.”
“When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.”

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