Worster Quotes

#1. I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.

Mary E. Pearson

#2. There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how we can remedy that cultural lag by developing a new perspective on the historian's enterprise, one that will make us Darwinians at last.

Donald Worster

#3. Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has cost us much, ensnared us in our own designs, given us a few boasts to make about our courage and genius, but all the same it is an illusion.

Donald Worster

#4. When you begin to expect that there is always room for improvement, you put yourself in the driver's seat. Why wait for someone else to figure it out or do it? Expect that you are the one. Expect great outcomes. Expect that you are the best candidate and that you will achieve your goals.

Lorii Myers

#5. My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

Zaha Hadid

#6. We may be entering a new phase of history, a time when we begin to rediscover ... the traditional teaching that power must entail restraint and responsibility, the ancient awareness that we are interdependent with all of nature and that our sense of community must take in the whole of creation.

Donald Worster

#7. The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

Alice Rivlin

#8. Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.

Donald Worster

#9. Do what we will, the Colorado will one day find an unimpeded way to the sea.

Donald Worster

#10. How does it feel being a woman's weakness? I mean a real woman. I mean a real weakness.

Sofia Navarro

#11. Many thieves. One Greywaren.

Maggie Stiefvater