#ture

Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with bright aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her broad, deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling with the magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine - no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery. ↗

— Washington Irving

#beauty #nature #beauty

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#attention #ever #first #future #ironic

Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#disappear #francs #future #hundred #i

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#american #between #bond #both #close

In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#even #funding #funds #future #in my opinion

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature. ↗

— Rudolf Steiner

#begins #incomprehensible #language #meaningful #nature

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it. ↗

— Lee J. Cobb

#getting #i #out #penitentiary #way

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. ↗

— John Coltrane

#communion #feel #get #laws #musician

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#courage #culture #different world #faith #generations