“These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.” HomeAgeNightStudyYouthComfortAdversityProsperityPleasantRefugeRetreatConsolationAccompanyAccompany Us Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness-but the making of prosperous homes-every other consideration becomes secondary.” HomeBeautifulPolicyObjectsCreaturesForestsPreservesConsiderationWildernessRefugeProsperousWild Creatures Author:Gifford Pinchot
“Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.” KnowsHas BeensSoulHomeSeemsEyeLeftAmbitionBirdFilledWingsAffectionFlightDeniedDaringAmbitiousAshesRefugeThirstSovereigntyBosomsGrasping Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.” IfsWantPlayHomeOrderGamesClassDemandIndependentRevengeRefugeDomain Author:Theodor Adorno