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“You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“I was perplexed as to what the usefulness of any of the arts might be, with the possible exception of interior decoration. The most positive notion I could come up with was what I call the canary-in-the-coal-mine theory of the arts. This theory argues that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.”
― Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
― Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
“Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean...
[John Muir to Samuel Hall Young]”
― Alaska Days With John Muir
[John Muir to Samuel Hall Young]”
― Alaska Days With John Muir
“My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die. “There is evil for you. “We cannot get rid of mankind’s fleetingly wicked wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true.”
― Deadeye Dick
― Deadeye Dick
“Our quiet rage gives us wings, the possibility to negotiate the gears winding backwards uniting all time.”
― Year of the Monkey
― Year of the Monkey
Mae’s 2024 Year in Books
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