"Stalking along from log to log, or plunging their long legs in the oozy swamp, two large herons paid no attention to my presence, but occupied themselves with their own fishing arrangements, as if their wilderness were their own."

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Source : William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.132

William Cowper Prime

#Sea Quotes #Fishing Quotes #Two Quotes

“No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.”
“I'm just naturally quite toned. My dad was like a body builder, so I've got my dad's body. Not all of it, thank God.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”
“Art is the expression of an enormous preference.”
“You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So it is with a nation; to understand it you have to read its books”
“I like hip-hop, I like yay music.”
“Everything in your world is filled with intelligence, even the so-called inanimate objects. Treat them intelligently if you wish to obtain intelligent, harmonious results.”
“I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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