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- There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my…
- You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that…
- We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power…
- What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally…
- We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
- A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and…
- ... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on…
- Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
- Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
- Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do…
- Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting…
- It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle