"Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season."

-- Arthur Lismer

#Nature Quotes #Magic Quotes #Wilderness Quotes

“The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.”
“The best thing that happened during the filming of Out Cold is that I forged a friendship with Lee Majors that endured for almost 12 weeks.”
“It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.”
“People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.”
“Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, "What is truth?" Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we will hold it as a sacred inviolable thing. But in the absence of that infallible criterion, we have all an equal right to grope about in our search of it, and no body and no school nor clique must be allowed to set up a standard of orthodoxy which shall bar the freedom of scientific inquiry.”

Source : "The Theory of Political Economy". Book by William Stanley Jevons, 1871.
“Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.”
“Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.”
“And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?”

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