"One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth."

“A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.”

“He was a man of great statue”

“I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.”

“There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.”

“Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.”

Source : "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

“Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.”

“I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?”

Source : George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.55, The Floating Press

“The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.”

Source : Liberty Hyde Bailey (1903). “The Nature-study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature”