"The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman."

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#Thinking Quotes #Environment Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.”
“Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.”
“The animals you say were 'sent' for man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, why came they aeons before man did, to spend long centuries on earth. Awaiting their devourer's birth? Those ill-timed chattels, sent from heaven, were, sure, the maddest gift e'er given - 'sent' for man's use (can man believe it?) when there was no man to receive it!”

Source : "Seventy Years Among Savages". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1921.
“Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.”
“I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I don't have to prepare it, and sometimes I have a concert grand!”
“Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.”
“I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.”
“The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.”

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