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You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the…
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The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then…
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If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in…
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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work…
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The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the…
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Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its…
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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at…
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
— Lord Byron
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes…
— Thomas Carlyle
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You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the…
— Barry Lopez
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn…
— Zhuangzi
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Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
— George Santayana
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Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.
— Jacob Burckhardt
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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
— George William Curtis
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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.
— Maria Montessori
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