For no matter whether the fairies are seen metaphorically or as real beings inhabiting their own real world, a study of them shows us that those who came before us (and many of that mindset still survive) realized that we are -- no matter what we may think to the contrary -- very little … Continue reading Quote for Today: Eddie Lenihan
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Quote for Today: John Muir
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. --John Muir Image: Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park via GoodFreePhotos
Quote for Today: John Kramer
The pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness, whether by a man or a nation, leads to ruin… Good men build; great men destroy. They destroy because they try to control something other than themselves and that always leads to destruction. ― John Kramer, Blythe Public Domain Image via MaxPixel
Quote for Today: Aesop’s Fables
An Eagle was soaring through the air when suddenly it heard the whizz of an Arrow, and felt itself wounded to death. Slowly it fluttered down to the earth, with its life-blood pouring out of it. Looking down upon the Arrow with which it had been pierced, it found that the shaft of the … Continue reading Quote for Today: Aesop’s Fables
Quote for Today: Robert McNair Price
Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will … Continue reading Quote for Today: Robert McNair Price
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us — the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small — to flourish. (Or rather, it was we who were … Continue reading Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
Quote for Today: Albert Einstein
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. -Albert Einstein Public Domain Image via Pixabay
