"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"

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Source : E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.129, Xist Publishing

E. M. Forster

#Stars Quotes #Wind Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o'clock in the morning and you're not in school.”
“The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.”
“Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.”
“First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.”
“Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.”
“Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should be required reading for anyone and everyone who is concerned about the decreasing rate of women studying computer science.”
“Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of our feet, shaped by the surfaces they press upon, are landscapes themselves with their own worn channels and roving lines. They perhaps most closely resemble the patterns of ridge and swirl revealed when a tide has ebbed over flat sand”
“I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. â€˜This above all ...â€™”

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