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#1

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

tags: destruction, ecology, reality, universe, wonder

2608 likes

#2

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

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#3

“Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! ”
― Hergé, The Shooting Star

tags: end-of-the-world, funny, tintin

1211 likes

#4

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

tags: books

2573 likes

#5

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

tags: inspirational

2929 likes

#6

“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

1198 likes

#7

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
― Pauline Kael

1270 likes

#8

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

tags: books, inspirational

2980 likes

#9

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

tags: beauty, canyons, carvings, nature, perseverance, suffering, windstorms

1563 likes

#10

“Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

1124 likes

#11

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
― Phyllis Diller

2812 likes

#12

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

2304 likes

#13

“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”
― Beatrix Potter

1054 likes

#14

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
― Beatrix Potter

tags: creativity, education, self-education, uniqueness

375 likes

#15

“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.”
― Booth Tarkington

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#16

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: books

2847 likes

#17

“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
― Thor Heyerdahl

1529 likes

#18

“Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.”
― Thor Heyerdahl

118 likes

#19

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

tags: happiness

2532 likes

#20

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

1669 likes

#21

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

119046 likes

#22

“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.”
― Ogden Nash

934 likes

#23

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

3872 likes

#24

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
― Jane Addams

tags: humanity, inequality, rights, security, society

1104 likes

#25

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

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#26