January 23, 2012

Thank you, T.R. | Yosemite National Park

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January 22, 2012
“ A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity; nor is that curiosity ever more agreeably or usefully employed, than in examining the laws and customs of foreign nations.
Samuel Johnson, from Boswell’s Life of Johnson •
January 15, 2012
“ A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann •
January 13, 2012
“ [P]erhaps the most critical question for the human future is how cell-like primary communities can survive and flourish within the global cosmopolitan flows that sustain our present numbers, wealth, and power, without being disrupted by those flows and without disrupting them… . [W]e need a new symbiosis all over again.
McNeill and McNeill, from The Human Web •
January 12, 2012
“ Hardly anything could be more isolated or more self-contained than the lives of these two walking here in the lonely hour before day… . And yet their lonely courses formed no detached design at all, but were part of the pattern in the great web of human doings then weaving in both hemispheres from the White Sea to Cape Horn.
Thomas Hardy, from The Woodlanders •
January 9, 2012
“ Live in London for a year, and you will not get to know much about the English. But through comparison, and in the light of your surprise, you will suddenly come to understand some of the more profound and individual characteristics of France, which you did not previously understand because you knew them too well.
French historian Fernand Braudel on the unexpected insights of living abroad •
December 13, 2011
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Little Dragon | “Fortune”

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December 11, 2011
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December 10, 2011
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December 6, 2011
“ ‘I read,’ I say. ‘I study and read. I bet I’ve read everything you’ve read. Don’t think I haven’t. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM-drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on it.’
David Foster Wallace, from Infinite Jest •
December 5, 2011
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December 4, 2011
“ Report of fashions in proud Italy,
Whose manners still our tardy apish nation
Limps after in base imitation.
Shakespeare, from King Richard II •
December 2, 2011
Anathema.
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December 1, 2011
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November 30, 2011
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