"Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it."

-- Robert Hass

#Running Quotes #Land Quotes #Water Quotes

“The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.”
“A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.”
“Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers to life's important questions. They all have fickle, highly whimsical minds of their own. Nevertheless. If you're patient, if you don't rush them, when they're ready, they'll smash into you. And don't be surprised if afterward you're speechless and there are cartoon Tweety Birds chirping around your head. (Gareth van Meer)”
“Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”
“There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.”

Source : Hiroshima ch. 1 (1946)
“Let the conversation flow at its own pace, don't try to rush it or control it. You need to let go and be part of the conversation.”
“Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will be meet with the violent resistance of the populace... One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being... The people owe all the political rights and privileges which we enjoy today, in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength”
“The greatest encouragement throughout the Bible is God's love for His lost race and the willingness of Christ, the eternal Son, to show forth that love in God's plan of redemption. The love of Jesus is so inclusive that it knows no boundaries. At the point where we stop caring and loving, Jesus is still there loving and caring”

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