Loutishness Quotes & Sayings

Someday you will name me,
then gently place those burning
holy roses in my hair.
[Songs of Longing] — Rainer Maria Rilke

Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world politely turning
From the loutishness of learning. — Samuel Beckett

Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance. — Janine Benyus

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way. — Daniel Nathans

All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away. — Terry Pratchett

Life is not light, but refracted colour. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe