#wi

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#concern #culture #environmentalists #kind #landscape

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. ↗

— William Pollard

#change #creativity #improvement #incentive #inevitable

An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#approach #easy #gates #ground #indeed

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me. ↗

— Iggy Pop

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Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#continually #floating #varies #wave #whose

So vast is art, so narrow human wit. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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