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“The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals, or in their music, not in their dreams: it's out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don't know what it is, this holiness: but it's there, and it looks at the sky. Probably though this is some conditioning the Company installed to ensure I'd be a good botanist. Well, I grew up into a good one. Damned good.”
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“Nature is seen by humans through a screen of beliefs, knowledge, and purposes, and it is in terms of their images of nature, rather than of the actual structure of nature, that they act. Yet, it is upon nature itself that they do act, and it is nature itself that acts upon them, nurturing or destroying them.”
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“Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable to fly far from their own shores. To provide resting places for them, where they can coal and repair, would be one of the first duties of a government proposing to itself the development of the power of the nation at sea.”
Source : Alfred Thayer Mahan (2010). “Sea Power and World History: 1660-1783”, p.48, Fireship Press
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“You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away.”
Source : "French Montana ends marriage, shares ‘dumb’ spending habits" by Theo Bark, theboombox.com. September 7, 2012. 
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“I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it.”
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“Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.”
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“The cuter girls kinda went off from the older women because we're younger, and we're cuter, we've got better bodies, and for some reason that's like a huge issue with older people.”
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“Never run away from anything. Never!”
