"In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."

-- Aldo Leopold

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“The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin, since social change cannot be reduced to a military solution.”
“And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.”

Source : Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1902). “The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence”, p.12, Library of Alexandria
“Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.”
“The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.”

Source : "Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood". Book by Eileen Whitfield, 1997.
“Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow”
“Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.”

Source : "Essays in the History of Liberty: Selected Writings of Lord Acton, 3 vols". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1985-1988.
“You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.”
“This morning I was standing in the shower and thought how I was sick of losing and how it was about time I had a big game.”

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