"A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes."

-- Alexander Pope

#Nature Quotes #Tree Quotes #Robes Quotes

“Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.”

Source : John James Audubon, Christoph Irmscher (1999). “Writings and drawings”
“I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.”
“He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.”
“To see an older woman play a little boy on stage completely blasted open my perception to what it meant to act. That was it for me.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.”
“The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.109, Penguin
“No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.”
“Singing was my first passion. Whenever I sing, I'm always so happy.”

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