"Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness."

-- Aldo Leopold

#Mountain Quotes #Minorities Quotes #Woods Quotes

“Maybe tomorrow we'll all wear 42, so nobody can tell us apart.”
“There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.”
“This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.”

Source : Isaac Mayer Wise (1876). “The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures”
“The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.”
“Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?”
“I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.”
“I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.”
“I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.”

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