"Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural."

-- Philip Jose Farmer

#Art Quotes #Nature Quotes #Men Quotes

“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one personâ€™s life.”

Source : Eavan Boland (2012). “A Journey With Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet”, p.6, Carcanet
“They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.”
“The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.”

Source : Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated
“I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)”
“A country in which 42% of the population is totally misinformed is not a country where democracy is safe.”
“A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.”

Source : "Late-term abortion ban ruled unconstitutional". www.cnn.com. June 2, 2004.
“No matter how much money you make or don't, how many friends you think you have or lack or how much you know you are loved - or not, we all cherish one thing above all else, the intrinsic need to connect”
“An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the work cheaply. Moreover, continuity may be got at the expense of intellectual arthritis; a reviewer who has been at his grisly task for half a lifetime may stiffen into prejudices of every sort, and become too anchylosed to do better than turn his back to a new wave when it rushes down on him.”

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