It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795
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There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it “the reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.” The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of “artist.”
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1849Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943