"We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it."

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Source : Lawrence Durrell (1969). “Justine”, Pocket

Lawrence Durrell

#Children Quotes #Land Quotes #Landscape Quotes

“As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep you eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole.”
“Write from what you know into what you don't know.”
“When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.”
“In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce baby oil droplets or coal nuggets.”
“For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in.”
“There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.”
“The theater has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told.”
“[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.”

Source : "Al-Assad touts plan for resolution, says enemies of Syria 'will go to hell'". Televised speech, edition.cnn.com. January 17, 2013.

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