#present

That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back. ↗

— David Baker

#any #back #began #garden #get

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics. ↗

— Joan Blades

#basics #better #common #common sense #common values

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing. ↗

— Matt Groening

#basically #doing #else #everything #i

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. ↗

— William Bartram

#delightful #distant #elegance #forests #grand

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #being #clothed #derive #due

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#could #family #me #need #partly

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#concern #eyes #first #future #globalization

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#endangered #life #live #more #more and more

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#being #challenged #concept #done #every

A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#club #fit #friends #funny #gay