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“Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.”

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W. S. Merwin is a renowned American poet, born on September 30, 1927. His poetry is known for its profound philosophy and unique style, which has won him a wide audience. more

“Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would object that one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them.”

People Knows Made Deals Mistake Worst Subjects Objects Definitions Following Experts

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“Never waste a crisis.”

Waste Crisis

Author:Paul Romer

“Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.”

Mind Humans Born Fire Human Mind Conservation Prudence No Hope

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.”

World Memories Disenchantment

Book:Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Source: Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

“When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to do with us. The grace is in the separation, the distance, the sense of a self-sustaining way of life.”

Way Mean Self Facts Grace Distance Possession Separation Autonomy Sustaining Wildness

Book:More Scenes from the Rural Life

Source: More Scenes from the Rural Life

“Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.”

Believe Opposites

Book:The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson: July 1884-August 1887

Source: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson: July 1884-August 1887

“Man is the namer; by this we recognize that through him pure language speaks. All nature, insofar as it communicates itself, communicates itself in language, and so finally in man. Hence, he is the lord of nature and can give names to things. Only through the linguistic being of things can he get beyond himself and attain knowledge of them-in the name. God's creation is completed when things receive their names from man, from whom in name language alone speaks.”

Men Giving Names Speak Language Lord Creation Pure Communicate God's Creation

Author:Walter Benjamin

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