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For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home ↗

— Tahir Shah

#nature #home

... by treating nature as exterior and inferior to humans we saw no harm to ourselves in polluting the soil, the plants, the air and the water. We did not notice the effect of our pollution on whatever walked over it, ran across it, climbed up it, flew through it, or swam in it. Now we notice that harming other constituents of our planetary system brings harm to ourselves. ↗

— Betty Jean Craige

#home

In spring training prior to his 1995 rookie season, Chipper was already so confident in who he was as a player that he famously deadpanned to veteran slugger Fred McGriff, after the Crime Dog grounded into an inning-ending double play, these two words: “Rally killer.” His confidence carried over to the field, just as it had since he began playing as a kid—he batted .265, and he led all rookies with 23 home runs, 87 runs, and 86 RBIs. Hideo Nomo was Rookie of the Year for the Dodgers, but Chipper and the Braves were World Champions. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#baseball #chipper-jones #home

I memorized all of “John Carter” and “Tarzan,” and sat on my grandparents’ front lawn repeating the stories to anyone who would sit and listen. I would go out to that lawn on summer nights and reach up to the red light of Mars and say, “Take me home!” I yearned to fly away and land there in the strange dusts that blew over dead-sea bottoms toward the ancient cities. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#home

Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat with his boot, so he tells himself, sometimes successfully. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#war #warriors #home

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you. ↗

— Stuart Wilde

#end #forces #in the end #reality #upon

In bad times, the rich usually get richer. ↗

— Stuart Wilde

#bad times #get #rich #richer #times

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them. ↗

— Billy Dee Williams

#i #like #originally #planned #really

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth. ↗

— Stuart Wilde

#emotional #experience #get #having #invest

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#falls #france #hands #money #paper