"what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly."

-- Edna O'Brien

#Fear Quotes #Animal Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want to see happen rather than trying to force a particular set of outcomes.”

Source : "Author Toby Hemenway believes permaculture could move us beyond 'sustainability'". Interview with Heather Shayne Blakeslee, www.gridphilly.com. October 1, 2015.
“It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it.”
“My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.”
“The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached.”

Source : Amos Elon (2003). “The Pity of it All: A Portrait of German Jews, 1743-1933”
“The first thing the secretary types is the boss.”
“Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.”

Source : Amy Vanderbilt (1967). “Amy Vanderbilt's Everyday Etiquette”
“Find out where the ball is, get there; hit it.”

Source : Explaining his tactics as a batsman. Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
“The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.”

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