"Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down."

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Source : "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest". Book by Mark J. Plotkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 1994.

Mark Plotkin

#Library Quotes #Burned Quotes

“My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.”

Source : Letter to Harold Preece, c. January or February 1928.
“Death submits to no one.”
“Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.”

Source : Charles Churchill (1772). “Poems: By Charles Churchill. In Three Volumes. With Large Corrections and Additions. To which is Added, the Life of the Author. Adorned with Cuts”
“It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it”
“Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.”

Source : Penelope Leach (2013). “Your Baby and Child”, p.10, Knopf
“I've seen many miracles take place in people's lives. Financial miracles, miracles of physical healing, mental healing, healing of relationships.”
“When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.”
“We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways.”

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