“Starker [Leopold] had an adage for people in public service: 'If you're ashamed of it, don't do it. If you're not, publicize it.' " -David Graber, wildlife biologist at Yosemite National Park”
― Engineering Eden: A Violent Death, a Federal Trial, and the Struggle to Restore Nature in Our National Parks
― Engineering Eden: A Violent Death, a Federal Trial, and the Struggle to Restore Nature in Our National Parks
“Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
“Jesus said, "The Father's kingdom is like a merchant who had a supply of merchandise and found a pearl. That merchant was prudent; he sold the merchandise and bought the single pearl for himself. So also with you, seek his treasure that is unfailing, that is enduring, where no moth comes to eat and no worm destroys.”
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