Caretakers Landscape Quotes & Sayings

Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current. — Jimmy Heath

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point. — Conan O'Brien

These bears were reimagined in place through a collective belief and need. I do not know why they were sculpted into being, but their power is palpable. I may be blind to what has been buried here or held inside these effigy mounds for thousands of years, but I can read the landscape like Braille through the tips of my fingers translating the script of grasses into a narrative I can understand. The bears and birds and snakes written on the body of the Earth through the hands of humans who dwelled here in the Upper Mississippi River Valley are a reminder that we form the future by being caretakers of our past. — Terry Tempest Williams

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem. — Kiki Dimoula

He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves that September. Some would fall with the trees generations later. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives. — George Orwell

A black cat crossing the road is considered bad luck in some cultures. What about the cat's culture? — Anno Nomius

If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close to their homes as possible, and if they are willing to learn to judge the quality of food and food production, then they are going to give economic support to an entirely different kind of land use in an entirely different landscape. This landscape will have a higher ratio of caretakers to acres, of care to use. It will be at once more domestic and more wild than the industrial landscape. — Wendell Berry

Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating. — Francesca Lia Block

My Fear of not being liked or loved would tell me to tolerate things in some of my relationships with others that should not have been tolerated. — David Mezzapelle

Words without poetry lack passion; words without passion lack persuasion; words without persuasion lack power. — Brennan Manning