Richard Schultes Quotes

#1. Someone knew I'd need to hold your hand before I ever had one.

Jamie McGuire

#2. You have a feeling of achievement when you discover a new plant, even a plant that has no use.

Richard Evans Schultes

#3. Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition.

Richard Evans Schultes

#4. It doesn't matter unless you let it matter.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#5. One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid by a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. Pure experimentation? Perhaps not.

Richard Evans Schultes

#6. OF course they did,' she snapped back. 'According to them, you single-handedly won a dozen battles, restored the Spanish throne, and infiltrated Napoleon's inner circle, after which you rode an elephant, wrestled a crocodile, and swam the Straits of Gibraltar.

Eloisa James

#7. From the beginning of time until the present moment, man's ungodly quest for power, his determination to use his gift of free choice for his own selfish ends, has brought him to the brink of doom.

Billy Graham

#8. This is an opportunity for the port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters - and reject this short-term lease.

Ed Murray

#9. There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

Bill Kurtis

#10. The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.

Richard Evans Schultes

#11. In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we can see whatever we want whenever and wherever we want to see it, be it 'Grand Illusion' or 'Duck Dynasty.'

Terry Teachout

#12. He loved her; in some ways he was devoted to her. But he couldn't reach her, and it was the same on her side. It was as if they'd drunk some fatal potion that would keep them forever apart, even though they lived in the same house, ate at the same table, slept in the same bed.

Margaret Atwood

#13. My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

Bruno Mars

#14. In fact, Guerra based his story on the diaries of two explorers, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes. There work is some of the only documentation of cultures that have since vanished. But Guerra did not want white men to be his protagonists.

Tom Cole