"Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small."

-- Barbara Ann Kipfer

#Thinking Quotes #Views Quotes #Land Quotes

“Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.”
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”
“I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.”
“Zach had rushed down to rescue me without remembering to put a shirt on...Maybe I had died and gone to heaven.”
“What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought he had the answer. Regret. Regret for things said, things done, and things not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.”
“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”

Source : God and the Astronomers ch. 9 (1978)
“He adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector.”
“Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?!”

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