One interrogator accused me of bad faith: that if I sincerely felt so deeply on the matter, I should write more about it. But what I gain most from nature is beyond words. To try to capture it verbally immediately places me in the same boat as the namers and would-be owners of nature: that is, it exiles me from what I most need to learn. It is a little as it is in atomic physics, where the very act of observation changes what is observed; though here the catch lies in trying to describe the observation. To enter upon such a description is like trying to capture the uncapturable. Its only purpose can be to flatter the vanity of the describer – a function painfully obvious in many of the more sentimental natural history writers.
– John Fowles, The Tree
Until I said I was an English major.
– Author’s Post, First thoughts in Hawaii
Clouds are free – they just float around the sky and have fun all day.
– Bob Ross
…asking the right question is frequently more than halfway to the solution of the problem.
– Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy
If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry As Insurgent Art
I’ll be the grapes fermented,
Bottled and served with the table set in my finest suit
Like a perfect gentlemen.
– The Postal Service, Brand New Colony
The script it called for rain but it was clear that day so we faked it.
– The Postal Service, Clark Gable
Voice lost and dreaming, door floating over the horizon.
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry As Insurgent Art
I wish we could open our eyes
To see in all directions at the same time.
– Death Cab For Cutie, Marching Bands of Manhattan
But at the end (of Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer), he realized he had no one that understood him, and no one to share/bounce his thoughts with, and despite his whole journey of believing he could do it himself, he found out at the end that life is more than just bettering the lives of others, its bettering the lives of others with someone next to you.
– Andrew