Matusek King Quotes

#1. The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America ... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. The AvowalAs swimmers dareto lie face to the skyand water bears them,as hawks rest upon airand air sustains them;so would I learn to attain freefall, and floatinto Creator Spirit's deep embrace,knowing no effort earnsthat all-surrounding grace.

Denise Levertov

#3. The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.

Valeria Lukyanova

#4. The United States is an easy country to love because you can take it on faith that, at some point in every waking hour of the day, there is among your fellow citizens a vast exaltation of opinions that test the outer boundaries of the Crazoid.

Charles P. Pierce

#5. The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them.

Beth Comstock

#6. Everything beautiful has to be worked for.

Eknath Easwaran

#7. Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

Edward Abbey

#8. The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.

Johannes Kepler

#9. I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

Jonathan Ive

#10. God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.

Elton Trueblood

#11. I try to live in the luminosity of things.

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