"It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of the land and the sea and the stars; we are relations to the animals, cohorts to the plants. Our well being, and the well-being of the very planet depend on our pursuance of our given place within the natural world."

-- Chellis Glendinning

#Stars Quotes #Animal Quotes #Sea Quotes

“I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.”
“It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand ...”
“I like night fishing, even though there is a molecule of terror in it. Maybe it is that tiny bit of terror that I relish, that going mano a mano with another predator in the dark. I know it is not entirely civilized, but there is nothing to compare with the sizzle of fear except, perhaps, the rush of being feared. Either condition confirms you are alive.”
“I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.”

Source : John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.9, Vintage
“I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.”
“You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up seven is still a function of random luck.”

Source : "Barry Ritholtz: Outcome or process — what investment focus succeeds over time?" by Barry Ritholtz, www.washingtonpost.com. February 22, 2014.
“When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.”

Source : "A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.
“Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.”

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