"The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind."

-- Rene Dubos

#Mean Quotes #Remembrance Quotes #Earth Quotes

“A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.”
“Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.”
“People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.”

Source : "Back From Normal" by Noreen Malone, nymag.com. April 15, 2012.
“War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.”

Source : "War and peace". Robert J. Aumann's Nobel Prize Lecture, December 8, 2005.
“Reason necessarily expresses itself through emotions and emotions are healthy only insofar as they are expressions of reason.”
“I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.”
“Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.”
“When the Vikings moved into a place they just kind of killed everybody who was there before them.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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