"It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood."

-- Bernard DeVoto

#Fall Quotes #Swans Quotes #Curves Quotes

“Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.”
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
“Many people who get a lot of money are willing to work with me for no money. This is true.”
“I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.”
“My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.”
“Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.”

Source : Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.
“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
“Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!”

Source : Charles Mackay (1859). “Ballads and Lyrics”

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