"If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology."

“O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.”

Source : Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.24

“The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.”

Source : "Can Life Prevail?". Book by Pentti Linkola, 2004.

“I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose.”

“There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.”

“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

“A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.”

“he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence”

“No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.”