“You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.” MadePassionHouseLandLowsDirectUniversalInstitutionsAssumingIllNobleTyrannyRuinsMultitudesProphecyVulgarParliamentSpoilRefinedFlatteringVerifyMeddlingHouse Of CommonsCompetencies Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back.” MenLawDesirePassionWomenPleasureStruggleLandTasteOvercomingObstaclesFleshHatsStringsConventionsTiedVeilsBreezeSoftnessSubjection Book:Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Source: Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.” WarCertainPassionBornDifferencesCommonLandRevolutionGrewIdealsTraditionWideRealization Author:Vincent Massey
“This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes I would like to have dinner, which became hands, which became lands, shores, beaches, natives on the stones, staring and wild beasts in the trees, chasing the hats of lost hunters, and all this deserves a tone.” HandsPassionHouseLostTreeLandDeserveStonesRoseDinnerBeachStaringToneBeastHatsShoreHuntersChasingWild Beasts Book:Days and Nights Source: Days and Nights
“Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.” MayChildrenLittlesImportantSometimesReasonPlayFactsEarthUsedMotherPassionLosesWalksCitiesGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingLandFieldsAdultsOur ChildrenGreenReason WhyEggsCopiesFrogsTadpoles Author:Wangari Maathai
“In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art, his land, is homosexuality.” IfsArtCountryPassionLandLoversHomosexualityHomosexual Book:Practicalities Source: Practicalities
“To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a man, is not thought of, but to add a few yards of land to your field, to plant an orchard, or enlarge a dwelling, to always be making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, and to satisfy the smallest wants without effort and almost without cost. These are small objects, but the soul clings to them; it dwells upon them closely and day by day, till they at last shut out the rest of the world and sometimes intervene between itself and heaven.” MenWorldWantSoulSometimesLastsOrderPassionHeavenEffortTroubleLandFieldsObjectsCostComfortableAddPlantEnvironmentalEnormousConquerSustainabilitySmallestYardsPalacesConvenientDwellingOrchardSmall Objects Author:Alexis de Tocqueville