"Many trees planted around a home reduce the need for air conditioning."

-- Federico Pena

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“It seems to me that we canâ€™t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we canâ€™t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isnâ€™t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.”
“As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.”

Source : William Baziotes (1978). “William Baziotes: A Retrospective Exhibition : an Exhibition”
“Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.”
“The thousands of clips on internet are better to us than any DVD that could have been released.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.”
“We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren”
“Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?”
“I think the solution to making this world better is if we would just be healthy, mentally,”

Source : "Howie Mandel: 'We don't take care of our mental health'" by Elizabeth Landau, www.cnn.com. February 1, 2014.

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