#ere

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them. ↗

— Carolus Linnaeus

#distinguish #first #glance #globe #loss

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know. ↗

— Laura Linney

#always #challenged #different #end #explore

All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility. ↗

— Laura Linney

#asked #bedtime #clock #hated #i

A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cannot #eat #i #just #know

I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested. ↗

— Laura Linney

#could #day #gone #gym #hours

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#i #interesting #thrive #times

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody. ↗

— Laura Linney

#certain #certain things #condition #different #enjoy

I've always been interested in the outsider. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#been #i #interested #outsider

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father. ↗

— Laura Linney

#father #i #parents #spend #weekends

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#cold #cold iron #confine #fettered #first