Thursday, December 16, 2004

Some good quotes

But Eliot has shown us what the world is very apt to forget, that the statement of a terrible truth has a kind of healing power. In his stern vision of the hell that lies about us..., there is a quality of grave consolation. In his statement of the worst, Eliot has always implied the whole extent of the reality of which that worst is only one part. -Kathleen Raine

Great problems call for many small solutions. -Wendell Berry

If science cannot lead us to wisdom as well as power, it is surely no science at all. -Aldo Leopold

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you. -Aldo Leopold

Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyous though you have considered all the facts. - Wendell Berry

"The human mind, so frail, so perishable, so full of inexhaustible dreams and hungers, burns by the power of a leaf." - Loren Eiseley

Whom is domesticating whom? -Michael Pollan

In wildness lies the preservation of the earth - Henry David Thoureau

In Human culture lies the preservation of wildness. -Wendell Berry

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Stay alive, all your life. -Wendell Berry