Ifs Quote by Robert Hass Download Open image “If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.” — Robert Hass ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Places you live Responsible Watersheds
I think the most important thing people can do is to learn about their watershed. And it's something no one knows. — Alexandra Cousteau Copy Share Image
By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
We do not believe that you can be 'half responsible' or pick and choose the convenient areas to be responsible in — Arun Sarin Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around… — Sally Jewell Copy Share Image
I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
“It's hard to think of the divide where I grew up as a watershed. The creeks are dry most of the year, rainfall is… — Faith A. Colburn Copy Share Image
In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Cartography. A watershed is an area of land, usually mountains or forests, that drains into a river. History is also a river. Wouldn’t you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to read literature,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my grandchildren or… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric, and that… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image