“No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light.” MadeHandsLightSeemsBeautifulWaterCompanyFeetSkyRocksFlowerWallFineThousandAwfulCompareTemplesFloodMajestyBrowsMeadowsReassuringGroveYosemite Author:John Muir
“Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much.” IfsLittlesSoundDealsCompanyToo MuchImpossibleMinutesMajorsEdgesRadioNoiseAwfulLittle ThingsFrighteningTraffic Author:Elaine Paige
“The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.” GivingBodyAmericaCompanyTaxesFunctionFoundationAwfulShopsShelter Author:Anita Roddick
“Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.” PeopleShouldMeanReligionCompanySubjectsConversationTreatedFamiliarAwfulMutualInstructionRespectableTaboo Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters