Altums Garden Quotes & Sayings

The happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all. — Frances Wright

We need to move beyond Darwinian Theory, which stresses the importance of individuals, to one that stresses the importance of the community. British scientist Timothy Lenton provides evidence that evolution is more dependent on the interaction among species than it is on the interaction of individuals within a species. Evolution becomes a matter of the survival of the fittest groups rather than the survival of the fittest individuals. In a 1998 article in Nature, Lenton wrote that rather than focusing on individuals and their role in evolution "we must consider the totality of organisms and their material environment to fully understand which traits come to persist and dominate." (Lenton — Bruce H. Lipton

My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing. — Jean Craighead George

In a conservative society, stability and order were far more important than freedom of expression. — Karen Armstrong

Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history. — Pat Robertson

~beautiful soul weeps deep~ — Ivo Andric

Emptiness is filling me To the point of agony/ Growing darkness taking dawn/
I was me but now he's gone/ — Metallica

Weave sex is a little awkward. — Nia Long

Successful people got to where they did because they did something, and all successful endeavors exist because of those who acted. — Stephen Richards

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. — Baruch Spinoza

Mariketa: Stalking me, Mr MacRieve?

Bowen: No' likely, witch. I only stalk what I want to catch. — Kresley Cole

I did not hesitate to tell them that I not only had the authority of facts, but that it was my conviction that our worst enemy was ourselves, our vanity, our pride and our desire for honor. — F. Sionil Jose

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them. — Maurice De Vlaminck