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quote 2019-01-24 23:26

Read, Travel, Repeat

"One Beauty. One Beast. One Enchantment to Break."

Angel & Bavar

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quote 2016-04-20 23:00

Feminism in Cold Storage

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Silent Spring - Rachel Carson,Linda Lear,Edward O. Wilson

Honestly, I haven't yet read this book, but I took the quote from Goodreads at: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/880193-silent-spring. I figured a quote from this book was fitting this month, as it is Earth Month in the US (and Canada) and it was Rachel Carson who first brought us the need to pay more attention to our environment with this book. I hadn't known for years that she and this book were responsible for so much of the environmental movement until I read Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World last year.

Personally, I've been loving all the stuff about women in science and have a few of t-shirts of them. I got them from Redbubble. There's an artist, Hydrogene, that makes the best t-shirts and posters of the women in science, I just can't rave about it enough. There's a great design for Rachel Carson, check it out here.

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quote 2013-10-08 15:41

Rane Aria

"While Sue demonstrated the proper way to hand-pluck the terrier's coat..
" Always strip in the coat in the direction the hair grows." Sue said
"Got it" Elizabeth nodded and tugged a tuft of loose hair from Hyacinth's hindquarters "it's rather like plucking a giant eyebrow.

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quote 2013-08-09 21:25

denkpass@denkpass.de

Als einleitendes Zitat für ein Buch über Ameisen-Soziobiologie ziemlich fett: "Derjenige, der sich rühmt, die Kenntnis über alle tatsächlich existierenden Dinge zu besitzen, soll uns zunächst einmal die Natur der Ameise erklären.", St. Basilius

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quote 2013-05-19 21:53

aaron

Words are sensuous creatures, waiting to be rolled off tongues, sung in harmonies, whispered into ears. And the books that contain the words beg to be touched, opened, fingered. They wait, those handsome volumes with their sleek bindings and smooth covers, on bookshop shelves and in library stacks, to disseminate their pleasure if one would just open....

from "The Gorgeous Girls" by Marie Wilson

Source: www.harpercollins.ca/books/Gorgeous-Girls-Marie-Wilson/?isbn=9781443423946