Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933
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Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
—Walter Pater, 1873The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BCNever make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955