#ness

The new dam, of course, will improve things. If ever filled it will back water to within sight of the Bridge, transforming what was formerly an adventure into a routine motorboat excursion. Those who see it then will not understand that half the beauty of Rainbow Bridge lay in its remoteness, its relative difficulty of access, and in the wilderness surrounding it, of which it was an integral part. When these aspects are removed the Bridge will be no more than an isolated geological oddity, an extension of that museumlike diorama to which industrial tourism tends to reduce the natural world. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#wilderness #beauty

I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#business #call #i #i think #our

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#act #capacity #case #consciousness #familiarity

The first mistake in public business is the going into it. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#first #going #into #mistake #public

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#gold #health #pieces #real #silver

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world. ↗

— Richard Gere

#belongs #his #his holiness #holiness #leap

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. ↗