"What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it."

-- Stephanie Mills

#War Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Long Quotes

“Manhattan cabs are born old.”

Source : Jean Shepherd (2010). “The Ferrari in the Bedroom”, p.78, Broadway Books
“Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers waved back and forth. "Don't get any ideas," he said. "I'm far too young and innocent for that kind of thinking.”
“And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What is new is that Western science is slowly beginning to realize that some elements of that ancient lore might be correct.”

Source : Dean Radin (2009). “Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.”
“We do not wish to "judge" or assess out surrounding merely as a kind of expressive activity carelessly projected onto the world, but we wish to evaluate the world "correctly," i.e., in according with that it truly is, and the desire to know is directed at determining what the world truly is.”

Source : "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.
“We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.”
“Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226, Literary Character, Chapter XII. Last lines, 1922.

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