Hartvigson Quotes & Sayings

I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and see that such actions are inconsistent with the poetic perception, however they may serve science, and will affect the quality of my observations. I pray that I may walk more innocently and serenely through nature. No reasoning whatever reconciles me to this act. It affects my day injuriously. I have lost some self-respect. I have a murderer's experience to a degree. — Henry David Thoreau

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man. — Henry George

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed. — Tony Snow

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone. — Alister E. McGrath

There is a quasi-scientific fable that if you
can get a frog to sit quietly in a saucepan of cold water, and if you then
raise the temperature of the water very slowly and smoothly so that there
is no moment marked to be the moment at which the frog should jump,
he will never jump. He will get boiled. Is the human species changing
its own environment with slowly increasing pollution and rotting its
mind with slowly deteriorating religion and education in such a saucepan? — Gregory Bateson

All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet