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Rachel Carson
“In nature nothing exists alone.”
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“When a new book is published, read an old one.”
Samuel Rogers

William Golding
“There have been so many interpretations of the story that I'm not going to choose between them. Make your own choice. They contradict each other, the various choices. The only choice that really matters, the only interpretation of the story, if you want one, is your own. Not your teacher's, not your professor's, not mine, not a critic's, not some authority's. The only thing that matters is, first, the experience of being in the story, moving through it. Then any interpretation you like. If it's yours, then that's the right one, because what's in a book is not what an author thought he put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.”
William Golding, Lord of the Flies

Clive James
“All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.”
Clive James

Austen Henry Layard
“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great tide of civilisation had long since ebbed, leaving these scattered wrecks on the solitary shore. Are those waters to flow again, bearing back the seeds of knowledge and of wealth that they have wafted to the West? We wanderers were seeking what they had left behind, as children gather up the coloured shells on the deserted sands. At my feet there was a busy scene, making more lonely the unbroken solitude which reigned in the vast plain around, where the only thing having life or motion were the shadows of the lofty mounds as they lengthened before the declining sun.”
Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries Among The Ruins Of Nineveh And Babylon: With Travels In Armenia, Kurdistan And The Desert

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