“[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.” HumansScienceFatherDyingOceanPhotographInventionPityEstatesOur FatherSteamCheatedTelegraphGalvanism Book:Society and Solitude and Other Essays Source: Society and Solitude and Other Essays
“The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.” EndsEarthMotherPoetryFatherTreeWindRootsPaintForestsRainbowSighOur Father Author:John Denver
“Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.” WorldEyeKidsYoungMotherFatherSawsSixDiedRaisedMinoritiesHer EyesOur FatherFather Died Author:Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero