#sen

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#building #chosen #first #followed #forced

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#changed #expansion #exploration #got #history

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#city #i #i am #immediacy #living

Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#american #american indians #door #got #happen

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains. ↗

— Patrick White

#asthmatic #blue #brief #country #house

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#eliminate #enables #home #presentation #recording

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#piece-of-work #quintessence-of-dust #shakespeare #soliloquy #william-shakespeare

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#finger #grain #head #her #i

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#completely #conflict #control #dwelling #enjoy

For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development. ↗

— Kit Bond

#benefits #development #essential #nation #necessary