"Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat."

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Source : Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”

Kamala Markandaya

#Nature Quotes #Animal Quotes #Long Quotes

“No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.”

Source : Joy Davidman (1985). “Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments”, p.120, Westminster John Knox Press
“I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.”
“A lot of people put out albums with sort of crappy songs and a couple of singles because they know no one's going to listen to it anyway. We very much wanted it to be something that you do listen to from beginning to end and had a narrative that was important.”

Source : Source: www.thefader.com
“I started out doing everything on a custom scale and when that started paying the bills I started making more pieces.”

Source : Source: www.highsnobiety.com
“The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.”
“People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.”
“'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.”
“Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.”

Source : "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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