#hee

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#anniversaries #buds #burst #day #dozen

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#every #first #intelligent #keep #precaution

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male. ↗

— Max Lerner

#civilization #discovery #fire #greatest #human

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#absolute truth #alone #belongs #thee #truth

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#bumped #chair #child #error #fall

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#before #firmly #foot #his #made

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#alone #believe #everyone #i #i do

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#any #cheek #credit #deserve #i

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? ↗

— Jack London

#darn #gear #must #over #reverse

They have the big ferris wheel and we've been out of town for two months, so he just was like, 'Mommy I want to go to Toys R Us and I don't care if you have a movie coming out and all that.' He was just being a kid. But I had to allow him to have that moment. ↗

— Nia Long

#been #being #big #care #coming