His life itself passes deeper in nature than the studies of the naturalist penetrate; himself a subject for the naturalist. The la...tter raises the moss and bark gently with his knife in search of insects; the former lays open logs to their core with his axe, and moss and bark fly far and wide. He gets his living by barking trees. Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what i...s barely imaginable. It erodes ... assumptions about the nature of our reality, the "pattern" in which we dwell, and lays open new choices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let me see, what am I to buy for our sheep-shearing feast? Three pound of sugar, five pound of currants, rice--what will this sist...er of mine do with rice? But my father hath made her mistress of the feast, and she lays it on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,... And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,...r />Strong and content I travel the open road.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think of myself as a sex symbol or a servant. I think of myself as somebody who knows how to open the door of a 747 in the... dark, upside down, and under water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »