“The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much the same way you nourish the gift of writing - you read, think, talk, look, listen, hate, fear, love, weep - and bring all of your life like a sieve to what you read. That which is not worthy of your gift will quickly pass through, but the gold remains.” ThinkingWayWritingLooksBookHateReadingNaturalCreativeGoldRemainsWorthyBook ReadingFear Of LoveNot WorthyAtrophyNatural Gifts Book:The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children Source: The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children
“I think that an anthill is better than a nest ... that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million you are freer than in a nest, where all sit around and look at one another, waiting until scientists finally discover ways to make us mind readers. ... the psychology of the nest is loathsome to me, and I always sympathize with one who flees his nest, even if he flees into an anthill, where it may be crowded but one can find solitude - that most natural, most worthy state of man, that precious and intense state of being conscious of the world and of oneself.” IfsThinkingMenWorldWayMindLooksMayStatesWaitingNaturalMillionsPsychologyReaderThousandSolitudeConsciousHundredScientistOneselfWorthyIntenseCrowdedNests Author:Nina Berberova
“Yet what is more awesome: to believe that God created everything in six days, or to believe that the biosphere came into being on its own, with no creator, and partially lawlessly? I find the latter proposition so stunning, so worthy of awe and respect, that I am happy to accept this natural creativity in the universe as a reinvention of 'God.'” BelieveUniverseNaturalAcceptingCreativitySixCreatorWorthyAweLatterPropositionsStunningReinventionBiosphere Author:Stuart Kauffman
“My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.” MenNaturalErrorsWorthyImitationIncorrigible Book:Essays Source: Essays