Merriling Quotes & Sayings

I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that there is a hard core of wilderness need in everyone, a core that makes its spiritual values a basic human necessity. There is no hiding it ... Unless we can preserve places where the endless spiritual needs of man can be fulfilled and nourished, we will destroy our culture and ourselves. — Sigurd F. Olson

It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask. — Chuck Klosterman

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired. — Robert Fortune

The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. — Winston Churchill

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot! — Marilyn Monroe

A horny man is seen. A horny woman is heard. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage. — E. Howard Hunt

He pushed that thoughts away. He didn't like painful memories. Keep moving
that was his motto. Don't dwell in things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness. — Rick Riordan

It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways. — Dennis Banks

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction - how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn. — Alvin Toffler

Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional. — David Pye