"As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie."

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Source : Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”

Ellsworth Huntington

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“Men in their hearts hate women. It doesnâ€™t matter how much we love them. They hate usâ€”
“Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.”

Source : Roy Blount, Jr. (2013). “Now, Where Were We?”, p.250, Villard
“The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.”

Source : "The Tale of Despereaux". Book by Kate DiCamillo, 2003.
“Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.”
“Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.”
“I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance.”
“You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.”
“I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.”

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