#ants

Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#tyrants #death

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#eating #food #omnivore #plants #diet

Everybody will get their wants, when they heartily want. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#heart #wanting #wants #dreams

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#affected #ants #humans #i #i think

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#love #relationships #wants #dreams

Imagine that the world had created a new 'dream product' to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it. ↗

— Frank A. Oski

#birth #breastfeeding #breastmilk #cancer #family

Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into a frenzy worrying about what she isn't--and perhaps loses track of just where she is. ↗

— Jess Walter

#wants #beauty

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#because #been #company #educated #i

Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#plants #education

I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people. ↗

— Rachel Machacek

#happiness #happy #dating