Quote for Today: Beryl Markham
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one …
Quote for Today: Robert Henri
All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed. —Robert Henri, “The Art …
Quote for Today: Peter Hitchens
A world without a proper day of rest is like a landscape without hedgerows, trees, or landmarks: a howling, featureless wilderness in which we incessantly seek pleasure because we cannot …
Quote for Today: Ivan Chtcheglov
All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us …
Quote for Today: Mary Hunter Austin
There are many areas in the desert where drinkable water lies within a few feet of the surface, indicated by the mesquite and the bunch grass ( Sporobolus airoides ). …
Quote for Today: Edwin Powell Hubble
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors …
Quote for Today: Richard Wright
One walks along a street and strays unknowingly from one’s path; one then looks up suddenly for those familiar landmarks of orientation, and, seeing none, one feels lost. Panic drapes …