"My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company."

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Source : "Peter Zumthor: In pursuit of perfection" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

Peter Zumthor

#Quiet Quotes #Plant Quotes #Company Quotes

“TALLAHASSEE LASSIE was a record I wrote with my mom. A number of other famous groups have also recorded it such as Led Zeppelin (I understand they are currently touring) and several other English bands and also some various "Punk Bands".”
“In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.”

Source : Nathanael Emmons (1842). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]”, p.496
“As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things wont work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What you do, you don't think of as a product”
“Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.”

Source : Song: We Got Our Own Thang
“the greatest sin is carelessness.”

Source : "Playboy Interview: Linda Ronstadt". Interview with Jean Vallely, www.ronstadt-linda.com. April, 1980.
“There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we must study, and to whose conditions we must submit, if we would mitigate it.”

Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1865). “Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh”, p.166
“Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.”

Source : "Under a Thatched Roof".

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