Quotes October 18, 2021

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.”
Merce Cunningham
 
 
 
 
Of all the species that need rewilding, I think human beings come at the top of the list. I would love to see a more intense and emotional engagement of human beings with the living world.
George Monbiot
 
 
 
 
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Herman Melville
 
 
 
 
Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.
John O’Donohue
 
 
 
 
One foggy morning 30 years ago Bob Sadler was out looking for the perfect photo along a riverbank. A rowing competition was on. A homeless man happened by, looked at him and said, “I suppose the question for you is–are you an artist or are you just an observer with a camera?”
 
 
 
 
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
Wendell Berry
 
 
 
 
The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study…I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight.
Ross Gay
Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings: The Book of Delights: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness
 
 
 
 
If you brew your own cauldron, magic will surely happen.
Dara McAnulty
 
 
 
 
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.
Brene Brown – Professor-Lecturer-Author
 
 
 
 
A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
Angela Merkel – Chancellor of Germany
 
 
 
 
That’s all it took to solve problems — just sense.
A book is a friend. You can never have too many.
Gary Paulsen,
writer
1939-2021