"The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild land can provide work for those who need it as their source of income without being ruined for those who need it as their source of sanity."

-- Timothy Egan

#Years Quotes #Land Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.”

Source : Mary Baker Eddy (2000). “The Christian Science Journal”
“Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.”
“It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".”
“Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.”
“I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.”
“A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.”

Source : 'Tynan Right and Left' (1967) foreword
“One of my colleagues likes to say that, mathematics is the - he thinks about the only subject that he knows in academia or in the real world where if two people disagree about something - if people are studying some mathematical object and there's supposed to be a proof and they disagree about whether this proof or not, the will go into a room, sit down and talk about it and fairly quickly or at the end of the day one of them will admit they're wrong.”
“There are real issues that the president Donald Trump and particularly Steve Bannon, his political adviser, are pushing. It's a vision, a rather dark vision, of a 19th century world where great powers do transactional issues.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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