Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent school-masters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
-John Lubbock
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent school-masters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
-George Carlin
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
The worthy person is grateful and mindful of benefits done to him. This gratitude, this mindfulness, is congenial to the best people.