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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.”

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American essayist, poet, and philosopher. Born on May 25, 1803, and died on April 27, 1882. Known for his transcendentalist philosophy, his works have had a profound impact on literature and the intellectual world. more

“There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them. I would refine; I would say that the emotions aroused by these external things reverberating in the heart are indeed the story; or all that signifies the story....We translate a hill into a tale, conceive lovers to explain a brook, turn the perfect into the imperfect.”

Heart Stories Certain Turns Perfect Emotion Written Lovers Scene Demand Tales Hills Valleys Imperfect Translate Brooks Grove Hills And Valleys

Author:Arthur Machen

“Guided by film...we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things.”

Ifs Ideas Film Path Wind Approach Void Highways Thickets

Author:Siegfried Kracauer

“Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances.”

Water Air Offers Research Areas Distance Response Substance Pollution Initials Ecological Circuits Viral Contamination

Book:Open Sky

Source: Open Sky

“We are often in two places at once. In fact we are usually in at least two places and occasionally the contrast is evident....Here, most often, is nothing more than the best perspective to contemplate there.”

Two Facts Perspective Contrast Contemplating Evident Often Is

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.”

Body Felt Darkness Appearance

Author:Antony Gormley

“A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.”

House Names Tree Towns Legs Landscape Grass Infinity Ants Afar Tiles

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.”

Looks Wanted Success Winning Parent Roles Successful Lucky Models Role Models

Author:Derek Jeter

“She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions.”

Vision Preconceptions

Book:Bordering on fiction: Chantal Akerman's D'Est

Source: Bordering on fiction: Chantal Akerman's D'Est

“We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!”

Mind Matter Home Hands Eye School Water Feet Rocks Cold Firm Flames Despise Ambitious Thirst Affinity Chatter Hands And Feet Mind Love

Book:Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Somehow, the agenda has been put into the form of talking about a set of transitions from state A, the present, to a state B that's sustainable. The problem is that there is no such state. You have to assume that the transitions are going to continue forever and ever and ever. You have to talk about systems that are continuously dynamic, and that are embedded in environments that themselves are continuously dynamic.”

Has Beens States Problem Form Talking Forever Environment Assuming Agendas Transition Embedded

Author:George Cowan

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