"The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that."

-- Alice Walker

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Native American Quotes

“In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty.”
“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture”
“We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.”
“He can run, but he can't hide.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 20 June 1946.
“Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle are guilty of improper measurement.”

Source : "Do You Want to Be Just Average?" by Larry Swedroe, www.cbsnews.com. June 9, 2010.
“I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE...”
“A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.”
“Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.”

Source : "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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