"I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings."

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Source : John Burroughs (1924). “Summit of the years”

John Burroughs

#Nature Quotes #Rain Quotes #Wind Quotes

“Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.”
“Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and canâ€™t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.”
“From day one, I've always been a girly girl. In pre-school I loved driving around in my super Barbie car.”

Source : "Miss You Can Do It Premieres Tonight on HBO". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. June 24, 2013.
“It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.”
“Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.”
“Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.”
“A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work.”
“We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.”

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