Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.
– Aldo Leopold
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- Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel. – lvaro de Campos
- Of course, accidents will happen in wild-folk families just as among us humans, only in a wild-folk family, an accident is more apt to be fatal. – Samuel Scoville Jr
- I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. – Aldo Leopold
- To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. – Aldo Leopold
- A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. – Aldo Leopold
- I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them. – Aldo Leopold
- It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it. – Aldo Leopold
- The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: ‘What good is it? – Aldo Leopold
- That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics. – Aldo Leopold
- No fairy godmother had ever spent time helping a poor and humble milk maid who was destined to die even poorer and humbler. – Chris Pavesic
- Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them. – John Berryman
- Circumvent negative influences, circumstances and people. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. – Hyrum Smith
- If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey? – Craig D Lounsbrough
- How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth? – Noorilhuda
- Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line. – Rollo May
- The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. – HL Mencken
- Ordinarily, her love affairs are entered into skittishly, sometimes reluctantly. She doesn’t dive into bed but flutters in like a wayward moth. – Maggie Shipstead
- Depressed people do things they wouldn’t ordinarily do. – Sue Monk Kidd
- People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common. – Walker Percy
- If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge. – Benjamin Constant
- A nose is ordinarily naked. A nose isn’t nipple, although there are similarities. – Graham Spaid
- Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them. – Marty Rubin
- If one does secret acts, what should one do to correct them? He should expose the acts and thereby he will no longer fear anyone. – Dada Bhagwan
- I can tell the difference between the acts of a man and the acts of God. That’s why I still believe. I could always tell the difference. – Dee Henderson
- It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream. – Kim Stanley Robinson
- Just like small acts of kindness can pave the way for a better world, small acts of corruption open the road for a corrupt world. – Charbel Tadros
- The acts of observing and judging are necessarily solitary acts. – Mike Klepper
- Diminishing returns is the outcome of restriction – Sunday Adelaja
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- We should bloom like a flower without reservation or restriction, but with all our energy, power, and great love for this world. – Debasish Mridha
- Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself. – Stuart Wilde
- One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism. – Bruce Sterling
- Restriction often enhances clarity. – Richard J Foster
- The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores. – AE Samaan
- All of the important acts of creation and destruction involve the issuance of words and the application of signature. – Bryant McGill
- Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another. – Sivananda Saraswati
- By necessity practical and by philosophy stern, these folk were not beautiful in their sins. – HP Lovecraft
- The Fair Folk don’t give back what they take. – Cassandra Clare
- Folk can’t learn their lessons if they skip school. – Peter V Brett