Quote
1803·London, England
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's; I will not Reason and Compare: my business is to Create.
Lewis Thomas·1974Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive.
Walt Whitman·1855I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
John Muir·1938I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in "creation's dawn." The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.
