"How dreadful it is that because of our wills we can never love anything without messing it around! We couldnâ€™t even love a tree, a stone even; for sooner or later we should be pruning the tree or chipping a bit off the stone."

-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Tree Quotes #Stones Quotes #Pruning Quotes

“Scientists say over the next hundred years, the coast of California will sink almost five feet. So the presidential candidates need to do something. Mitt Romney is conflicted. On one hand, he denies that global warming exists. But if California is under water, he would definitely win the next election.”
“Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.”
“To be is to be the value of a variable.”

Source : Journal of Philosophy, 21 Dec. 1939
“We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.”

Source : Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”
“We have so many ideas about things we have never tried.”
“I always want my guests to be happy and impressed.”
“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”
“I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.”

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