"To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder."

-- Jane Jacobs

#Water Quotes #Tree Quotes #Ponds Quotes

“If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.”
“Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.”
“All's well if all ends well.”
“Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.”
“The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.”
“Pride also has a bill! Get ready to pay it!”
“I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.”
“It is important to make a dream of life and a dream reality.”

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