"I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives."

-- Rachel Carson

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“I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be in school, and I felt that university would just be spending another four years of my life before I could write.”
“Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?”
“Hotel Food !!, If i eat i will get Obesity, if i don't eat i will get Acidity...WHAT THE F...O...O...D...!!”
“I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.”
“Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.”
“Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.”
“One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob ...”

Source : Mona Van Duyn (1990). “Near changes: poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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