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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.


David Attenborough


#amazement #beautiful #feel #important #must

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.


David Attenborough


#films #get #glimpses #history #human world

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.


Colleen Atwood


#character #costumes #does #establish #first

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.


Margaret Atwood


#because #fifty-two #had #important #love

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.


Margaret Atwood


#ago #found #fundamentals #got #grammar

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.


W. H. Auden


#cannot #cardinal #driven #impatience #only

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.


Marcus Aurelius


#bears #bee #borne #good #grapes

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?


Jane Austen


#attentions #delicacy #flattering #happy #i

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.


Richard Avedon


#consider #human #i #i think #just

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.


Milton Avery


#blowing #changing #colors #drama #fantasy






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