Pastoralism Quotes & Sayings

But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a bright sunny day, or some happy outward circumstance. And when the brilliant fourteen fine days of October came on, her cares were all blown away as lightly as thistledown, and she thought of nothing but the glories of the forest. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models. — Charles Barkley

What you're afraid to think must be the truth. — Marty Rubin

I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because there's nowhere to "escape" to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime. — Michael Light

Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant ... Rose?
The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting! — Gareth Roberts

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected. — Annie Leibovitz

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them. — Peter Benchley

A little mountain will kill you just as dead as a big one if you fly into it. — Stephen Coonts

Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze! — Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

A bird can fly as high as it wants but it eventually has to come down to earth and get some water ... and when it comes down to get that water that's when you strike. — Kimbo Slice

There is always compensation for your troubles; you will be given when you need the most. — M.F. Moonzajer

There was almost a fairy quality to this place, he thought. The far look and the clear air and the feeling of detachment that touched almost on greatness of the spirit. As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it. — Clifford D. Simak