Jordon Setliff

“...and then the threw the sword as far into the water as he might; and there came an arm and a hand above the water and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished away the hand with the sword in the water.”
― Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

“I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially. E. B. WHITE”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

“Cixi’s style was not to force through drastic change, but to bring it about gradually through perseverence.”
― Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China