"If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."

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Henry David Thoreau

#Men Quotes #Plant Quotes #Civil Disobedience Quotes

“You don't learn about sex from doing it with boys, but from talking about it with girls.”
“My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.”
“It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free world is impossible when, in fact, ninety-five percent of the nations of the world already are nuclear free.”
“The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.”
“Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.”
“I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.”
“Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.”

Source : Ilka Chase (1963). “Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
“I'd probably try to stop the rain forests from being cut down. I'd probably join the revolution down south somewhere and try to save my life on the planet Earth. I might go to Libya. I might go see the Ayatollah. I might go to France, catch somebody in France I'm upset with.”

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