Nabhan Quotes & Sayings

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense — Miroslav Volf

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not. — R.C. Sproul

Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth. — Gary Paul Nabhan

Nabhan's forecasts nailed three of the largest seismic events on the West Coast in 1996. — Erin Aubry Kaplan

We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves. — Gary Paul Nabhan

Who needs sleep? I laugh in the face of sleep! — Ellen DeGeneres

All cultures have been mingled forever. — V.S. Naipaul

To the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that partially redeems the losses time brings and finds beauty in the faraway. — Rebecca Solnit

play has become too domesticated and regimented while playgrounds themselves have become more and more barren. May today are devoid of vegetation with which to form nests, shelters, wands, dolls, or other playthings...These concerns are best explored in a heterogeneous habitat, where several secret niches are harbored, the kinds that can no longer be found on prefabricated metal and plastic jungle gym. — Gary Paul Nabhan

The world rushes through us. We are peaceful. We are as deep and black as space. Staring up at the stars, we see only our own image reflected back at us.
We are infinite and we are ravenous. — Bennett Madison

Careful listening is more important than making sounds happen. — Alvin Lucier

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. — David Hockney

If you send it halfway around the world before it is eaten, an organic food still may be 'good' for the consumer, but is it 'good' for the food system? — Gary Paul Nabhan

Madison, Deborah. Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmer's Markets (New York: Broadway Books, 2002). Nabhan, — Michael Pollan

A seed is really something spiritual as much as it is something material. It contains a life spark that allows the regenerative process to happen. We need seeds because they are the physical manifestation of that concept that we call hope. — Gary Paul Nabhan

A child has a greater chance of being sexually abused than burned in a fire. Along with stop, drop, and roll we must teach them to yell, run, and tell. — Carolyn Byers Ruch

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past. — Michel De Montaigne

We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity
advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary ... we have arrived at a point from which we must seek a basis of faith in connection
and not only faith but recognition that it is a requirement for the existence of human beings. — Gary Paul Nabhan Stephan Trimble

There you go, Mr. Nabhan; seems to me you're right! — George Noory

You can't just change me and then leave. You can't. — John Green

Funny word, that: "fault." As in San Andreas. The crack through which one world intersects with the next, or vice versa. This crack in my head, still gaping open--a magnet, a haematoma, a dark and spreading pool. A cigarette-burn hole in the fabric of everything I see, or hear, or do; right in the middle, impossible to mend, impossible to disguise. Impossible to ignore. — Gemma Files

The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor. — Bryant McGill

We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be? — Mitch Albom

We're not interested in anyone saying the sky's falling, but David Nabhan is a rational man who has studied earthquakes seriously and has intelligent, useful information to offer. — Whitley Strieber

Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can. — Becca Fitzpatrick