Quotes

This is a page of quotes I like

“You cannot get through a single day without making an impact on the world around you”

-Jane Goodall

“El mundo no es difícil, lo hacemos difícil.”

-Félix “Huaranguito” Quinteros

“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.”

-Aldo Leopold

“But all conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.”

-Aldo Leopold

“We have acutely sensitive hands, but we handle the world with thick gloves and then, bored, blame it for lacking shape.”

-Charles Foster “Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness”

“Whenever there is no desire, one beholds a mystery; Whenever there is desire, one beholds the manifestations.”

-Lao-Tzu “Tao Te Ching”

“When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does in not? For then any change at all disturbs the deadline peace of the life-weary.”

-Walter M. Miller Jr. “A Canticle for Leibowitz”

“Every great passion is hopeless, if not it would be none at all but some cleverly calculated arrangement, an exchange of lukewarm interests.”

-Sandor Marai “Ember”