"A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree."

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Source : Gretel Ehrlich (2017). “Islands, the Universe, Home: Essays”, p.84, Open Road Media

Gretel Ehrlich

#Animal Quotes #Light Quotes #Wind Quotes

“We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].”
“Approval isnâ€™t necessary. Itâ€™s nice when you get it, but itâ€™s not going to stop us from being who we are. I mean, if Iâ€™d have listened to approval, Iâ€™d never have made it one day onstage. But to be criticized, if thereâ€™s validity, as upset as you are, you can learn from it.”
“Village cricket spread fast through the land.”

Source : "English Social History".
“I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.”
“I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 28, 2009
“But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.”
“I think that creative people, wherever they are, in any field, take inspiration wherever they can find it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.”

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