"By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life...."

-- John Muir

#Fire Quotes #Ice Quotes #Water Quotes

“The best marketing is education.”
“I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I realize I'm not different. I want what everyone wants. I want what they all want. I want all the things. I just want to be happy.”
“When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.”
“When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.”
“Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.”
“I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.”
“Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me feel vulnerable.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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