#Grove Quotes
“A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.”
“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”
Source : John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books
“More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.”
“To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.”
“One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.”
“Fundamentally only two great novelties have come out of recent warfare. They are: (1) mechanical vehicles, which relieve the Soldier of equipment hitherto carried by him; (2) air supply, which relieves the vehicle of the road.”
“Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.”
“I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn't care, because it was all about them.”
Catullus Poet
Homer Author
Juvenal Poet
Marcus Tullius Cicero Philosopher
Ovid Poet
Propertius Poet
Sappho Lyric poet
Seneca the Younger Philosopher
Virgil Poet
