Karen

“Life waits patiently for true heroes. It is dangerous when those aspiring to be heroes cannot wait until they find themselves.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966

“[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to take it or leave it, in whole or in part; believers in astrology, Marxism and virgin birth abound. But "no one can become a scientist unless he presumes that the scientific doctrine and method are fundamentally sound and that their ultimate premises can be unquestionably accepted.”
― Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

“Nothing truly wild is unclean.”
― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra