"How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?"

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Source : Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.6, Syracuse University Press

Deborah Tall

#Land Quotes #World Quotes #Evoke Quotes

“I can't wait to do the normal things. Like just doing your own groceries. Looking for your own tomatoes. I just can't wait to get up in the morning and look awful. I'm looking forward to getting bored.”
“The provision is in the promises.”

Source : Derek Prince (1997). “If You Want Gods Best”, p.7, Whitaker House
“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]”
“In every squadron there were, perhaps, four or five pilots who exuded confidence. They knew that they were going out to shoot. The rest knew sub-consciously, that they would make up the numbers, mill about, and get shot at.”
“In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.”

Source : My Two Countries ch. 1 (1923)
“People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.”
“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
“The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.”

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