"The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further."

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Joanna Macy

“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”
“Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.”
“Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.”
“Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization.”
“When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.”
“Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.”

Source : "Miles of Aisles" by L. M. Boyd, www.sfgate.com. April 9, 1995.
“Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception.”
“There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.”

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