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“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."
[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
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[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
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“Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
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“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.”
― Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold
― Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold
“we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
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The Big Read
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In 2003, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC for all of you uncouth Yanks, of whom I am one) conducted a massive survey asking one question: Wha ...more
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To celebrate our love of reading books that people see fit to ban throughout the world. We abhor censorship and promote freedom of speech.
My UNedited Life
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Are you writing a book? Help is on the way. myuneditedlife.com is a website designed to provide free writing tips, publishing hints and promotional ad ...more
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