"There's something when you're always immersed in the natural landscape where it becomes your healer, in a way, at the same time that it also becomes sort of frightening. I guess that's how I see things, in that form of duality."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Shirin Neshat

#Landscape Quotes #Way Quotes #Natural Quotes

“When I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears.”
“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”

Source : "Literature about medicine may be all that can save us" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.
“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”
“Worship is about encounter-coming into God's presence”
“It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's better to move quietly, with stealth, under cover of night. You've got two choices: You can wear cammies and shimmy along on your belly, or you can put on a red coat and stand up for everyone to see. It comes down to whether you want to be the British army in the Revolutionary War or the Viet Cong. History tells us which tactic was more effective.”
“As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.”
“The goal isn't innovation. The goal is effectiveness. We strive for innovation because we want to be effective.”
“In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.”

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