"In the religion of the Medes and Persians the cult of trees plays an important part, and with them, as with Assyrians, the symbol of eternal life was a tree with a stream at its roots. Another object of veneration was the sacred miracle tree, which within itself contained the seeds of all."

“You cannot be happy unless you are serving the truth of your being, however that service looks.”

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.70, Counterpoint

“I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.”

“Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.”

Source : "Fictional character: Judge Judy". "Judge Judy", www.imdb.com. (1996-).

“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”

“I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.”

Source : "George W. Bush Calls Foreign Aid A Moral And Security Imperative". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, nepr.net. April 13, 2017.

“When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.”

Source : "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.

“Utilitarianism condones killing of innocent human beings, even murder, if it makes the world a better place.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com