Favorite Quotes

[Southtown]

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. -- Musō Soseki

[Turtle]

if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. ~ kahlil gibran

[Turtle]

the moment a person forms a theory, their imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. ~ thomas jefferson

[Theory5]

... One false move and we could have a farce on our hands.

- Tom Stoppard

On The Razzle

[Turtle]

the opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy. ~ sun tzu

[Michaelangelica]

"We must educate people to have long range perspectives, to think in terms of many variables related to each other rather than certainties.

. . .

We must educate so people can cope efficiently, imaginatively, and perceptibly with information overload. . .

 

We must educate for empathy, compassion, trust, nonexploitiveness, non manipulativeness, for self-growth and self esteem, for tolerance of ambiguity, for acknowledgment of error, for patience, for suffering."

The Unprepared Society by Donald Michael Basic books NY 1968

[Michaelangelica]

We have a lot of work to do.

We need to reinvent our infrastructure to harmonize with nature's infrastructure.

We're dreaming a world where many worlds can fit.

It is at once a new dream and an ancient dream...

that all life is connected, that we are all connected, that we are all related.

 

Kenny Ausubel

Buddha

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

[JMJones0424]

We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model communities after nature's ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms.

 

Since the outstanding characteristic of the biosphere is its inherent ability to sustain life, a sustainable human community must be designed in such a manner that its technologies and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

[Turtle]

i am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. ~ john keats

[Turtle]

it is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

~ marcus tullius cicero ~

[Turtle]

books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. ~ mark twain

[Turtle]

if bread be what you seek o little mice,

go to some other shelf is my advice;

but if upon my books you whet a tooth,

your revel you shall rue in bitter truth.

~ ariston ~

[JMJones0424]

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested

[Turtle]

i would feel more optimistic about a bright future for humans if they spent less time proving they can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~ e. b. white

[Turtle]

be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. ~ d.h. lawrence

[Turtle]

there is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. ~ ansel adams

[JMJones0424]

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe