Mary Soderstrom > Mary's Quotes

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - came by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.”
― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World

“A rise in sea level is not like the filling of your bathtub. If it were, accommodation would be easier and could be accomplished in slow steps that might give people the time to figure out the best way to cope. No, while a barely noticeable rise in water levels continues in the background, the great damage that is done comes more suddenly, when storms whip up waves that magnify high tides, engulfing houses and encampments, eroding cliffs, breaching sandbars, and pushing salt water up rivers and into groundwater.”
― Mary Soderstrom, Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from Rising Waters