"I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality."

-- Judy Cannato

#Thinking Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Environmental Quotes

“Iâ€™m here now, Iâ€™m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.”
“Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun rise, pass over my head and set. Ladybirds mated on my knuckle; a shrew nibbled a hole in my stocking while I tried not to laugh. Such a day was worth any punishment.”
“But the world moves on, even when you donâ€™t want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops. Thatâ€™s harsh and magical and somewhat comforting because nothing is immutable, however much we want it to be. Moments cannot be caught like fossils in amber, ever- perfect,ever-beautiful. They go dark and raw, full of shadows, leaving you with the memories. And the world moves on.”

Source : Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.149, Penguin
“We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.”
“He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest.”
“ÂDo back exercises. Pain is distracting.”
“I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: "You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago." And she replied: "But I'm also three weeks older.”
“I believe in God and his son, Jesus.”

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