"Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel."

-- Aldo Leopold

#Garden Quotes #Needs Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Music is a tool. Lighting is a tool. Power point is a tool. Getting those things right is not the goal. God is the goal. Those are just tools. And we can real easily turn into worshippers of all the tools, rather than remembering that this is simply a tool to get the job done which is to help connect people with God and to help inspire people.”
“It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.”
“Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.”
“Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?”
“I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'”
“Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding the lake, so manageable. The leaves and the sand are so close, it's as if you might, if you wanted, pull them on over your head. And the lake always laps at the shore so gently, licking the hand you dip into it like a young dog, and the water is soft and shallow.”

Source : Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.34, Granta Books
“What I think is really interesting is to look at the culture of disruption and of world-changing in terms of what [Buckminster] Fuller was doing and to draw the contrast more than the similarity.”

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