#material

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#come #death #exist #grown #her

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution. ↗

— George Edmund Street

#avoid #design #execution #material #most

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#because #children #decision #every #i

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#former #likely #materials #nuclear #seeking

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#created #destroyed #laws #material #neither

The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#concern #current #even #material #nuclear

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#consumption #finite #growth #impossibility #infinite

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#fallen-nations #futility #inevitability #knowledge #learning

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) ↗

— Patti Smith

#materialism #musicians #pure-awesome #technology #beauty

During those days Fingerbone was strangely transformed. If one should be shown odd fragments arranged on a silver tray and be told, "That is a splinter from the True Cross, and that is a nail paring dropped by Barabbas, and that is a bit of lint from under the bed where Pilate's wife dreamed her dream," the very ordinariness of the things would recommend them. Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes are worn and hassocks are sat upon and finally everything is left where it was and the spirit passes from the ground as if there were no other pleasure in the world but brown leaves, as if it would deck, clothe, flesh itself in flourishes of dusty brown apple leaves, and then drops them all in a heap at the side of the house and goes on. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#dreams