"Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with nature. Ashes and Snow is a 21st-century bestiary filled with species from around the world. Natureâ€™s orchestra includes not just Homo sapiens but elephants, whales, manatees, eagles, cheetahs, orangutans, and many others."

-- Gregory Colbert

#Eagles Quotes #Whales Quotes #Elephants Quotes

“The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.”

Source : June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
“The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.”

Source : Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo (2015). “The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing”, p.117, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, grown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God. Life has more than enough excitement up its sleeve, ready to hit you with as soon as you're not looking, without you adding to the drama.”
“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
“To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.”
“do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage”
“It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.”

Source : Arthur S. Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1926). “The Internal Constitution of the Stars”, p.393, Cambridge University Press
“I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.”

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