“If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.” PeopleIfsThinkingHardEnoughHappensGrowthChangeWorkBeautyWindHard WorkBoundsWeatherStarting Anew Book:By the Shores of Silver Lake Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake
“The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?” FirstsLongMadeSelfEnergyProcessGrowthEmotionSeaCreationFitMadnessWeatherUselessDestroyingHollowUndisciplinedTyphoons Author:Pearl S. Buck
“The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency.” SometimesHelpingSocialGrowthAbilityLevelsCompanyFailingInfluenceParticularHabitSucceedShotsIdealsTrialsWeatherPursueAgencyReach OutContributingThose We LoveHopefulnessTandem Author:Patrick Shade
“Virtually throughout its history, and certainly in the 20th century, California has been known as the place to go for dynamism and growth. It did not become the richest, most populous, and most productive state solely because of its weather and natural resources. So it takes a lot to turn California around from growth to contraction, from people moving into the state to a net exodus from the state, from business moving into California to businesses leaving California. It takes some doing. And the Left has done it.” PeopleHas BeensStatesDoneMovingTurnsLeftGrowthNaturalKnownCenturyResourcesLeavingWeatherCaliforniaProductive20th CenturyNatural ResourcesPlaces To GoContractionsDynamismExodus Author:Dennis Prager
“The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.” ProcessUnderstandingGrowthLandMaterialsCriticalWeatherCompromiseUnpredictable Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.” MenHeartJoyGrowthColdBlessingWarmWeatherFriendlyTemperamentPosterityCold WeatherBeneficenceUnsympatheticWarm Weather Book:A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty Source: A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty