"He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men."

-- Andrew Jackson Downing

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“And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.”
“The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.”

Source : Phillip E. Johnson (2000). “Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture”, Intervarsity Press
“I'm a foodie, I'm always eating, I'm eating right now ...sometimes I get fat around the waist, but I don't care.”
“Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.”

Source : "Ricky Van Veen Dishes On Notional, Silverman and Wintour's Daughter" by Erin Carlson, www.businessinsider.com. November 25, 2009.
“It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.”
“Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from living things around us and bring our values and actions in line with ecological necessity. But we must first realize that ecological and social and economic issues are all deeply intertwined. There can be no solution to one without a solution to the others.”
“Jesus died for our sins, not our sexuality.”

Source : "Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day". Book edited by Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon, 2001.
“Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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