Nested Naturals Quotes & Sayings

Sadly this process started early in our history with Adams's Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 and has continued through our history to the present day with Obama reinvigorating the Espionage Act of 1917. — Ron Paul

Sooner or later your fingers close on that one moist-cold spud that the spade has accidentally sliced clean through, shining wetly white and giving off the most unearthly of earthly aromas. It's the smell of fresh soil in the spring, but fresh soil somehow distilled or improved upon, as if that wild, primordial scene has been refined and bottled: eau de pomme de terre. You can smell the cold inhuman earth in it, but there's the cozy kitchen to, for the smell of potatoes is, at least by now, to us, the smell of comfort itself, a smell as blankly welcoming as spud flesh, a whiteness that takes up memories and sentiments as easily as flavors. To smell a raw potato is to stand on the very threshold of the domestic and the wild. (241) — Michael Pollan

Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14. — Nadia Comaneci

If one takes his studies by heaps at a time, he will benefit little, but if one gathers knowledge little by little he will gain much. — H.W. Charles

Every beauty must be completed by another beauty: Windows with flowers, trees with birds, mountains with fogs, life with goodness ... — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use. — Daisy Berkowitz

In her mind, Em was a deranged ballerina-child who smelled like bubblegum and only ate McDonald's Happy Meals. — Sarah Addison Allen

The armour of others is too wide, or too strait for us; it falls off us, or it weighs us down. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter. — Ken Follett

The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver ... Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother. — Louise Bourgeois