“There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe — and I do believe — that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.” BelieveRealitySeemsUniverseSidesRaceEmotionAttentionWonderFocusConditionsHumilityTasteDestructionLustReasonableOfferingRemedySilent SpringPanacea Book:Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
“You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a good critic. But there is nothing wrong with critics as long as people don't pay any attention to them. I mean, nobody wants to put them out of a job and a good critic is not necessarily a dead critic. It's just that people take what a critic says as a fact rather than an opinion, and you have to know whether the opinion of the critic is informed or uninformed, intelligent of stupid -- but most people don't take the trouble.” PeopleKnowsWantMeanLongFactsJobsPayAttentionOpinionTroubleStupidInformationHumilityApproachCriticismIntelligentCriticsEnthusiasmCombinationUninformed Book:Conversations with Edward Albee Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.” WorldWayInspirationalMotivationalGrowsAnimalPayAttentionCompassionLearningGrowingHumilityEmpathyPlantCrowdsNovelistsCrowdedRespectfulRespecting OthersProceedingPlants And AnimalsBe Respectful Author:William Kittredge