#nat

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#attaining #become #desire #ease #greatest

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#art #attempt #beyond #built #city

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#crooked #english #french #honest #individuals

Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying. ↗

— Alexa Vega

#crying #end #going #going home #home

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. ↗

— Rita Dove

#being #combination #exciting #find #i

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity. ↗

— Charlie Gonzalez

#citizens #contributing #countless #deserve #dignity

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#bringing #considerably #destroying #down #leave

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#afford #africa #almost #back #college

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine. ↗

— Rita Dove

#been #every #go #had #i

It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#alternative #deliberate #dependence #develop #end