Delectation Define Quotes & Sayings

Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness. — Aldo Leopold

When a person loses a friend, he consoles himself with the many other friends about him, and if he loses his gold, he meditates for a while and casts misfortune from his mind, especially when he finds himself healthy and still laden with ambition. But when a man loses the ease of his heart, where can he find comfort, and with what can he replace it? What mind can master it? — Kahlil Gibran

These days, everyone wants to eat, but no one wants to take the time and care needed to coax the land into giving up its glories. People don't change. We're always selfish, and we're always hungry. We've just gotten better at looking at greed and saying 'Oh, that's self-interest, that's all right.' We've forgotten the way the word 'enough' feels on the tongue. — Seanan McGuire

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing. — Martial

I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work. — Devon Sawa

All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance. — Andre Aciman

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes. — Tony Blair