"Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us."

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Source : Mundus Novus (1503) (translation by G. T. Northup)

Amerigo Vespucci

#Animal Quotes #Europe Quotes #America Quotes

“We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore.”
“When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.”
“I don't like magic - but I have been known to make guys disappear.”

Source : "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2009.
“You never hear in the news, 'Two hundred killed today when atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the agnostic stronghold in the north.'”
“Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.”
“He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers”
“The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines.”
“Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.”

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