Life is a phenomenon sui generis, a primal fact in its own right, like energy. Cut flesh or wood how you like, hack at them in a baffled fury—you cannot find life itself, you can only see what it built out of the lifeless dust.
The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is… - Donald C. Peattie
The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is…
- Donald C. Peattie
No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it. - Donald C. Peattie
No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it.
The last fling of winter is over ... The earth, the soil itself, has a dreaming quality about it. It is warm now to the touch; it has come alive; i… - Donald C. Peattie
The last fling of winter is over ... The earth, the soil itself, has a dreaming quality about it. It is warm now to the touch; it has come alive; i…
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place. - Donald C. Peattie
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.
I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium or confusion; I have set forth dull, n… - Donald C. Peattie
I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium or confusion; I have set forth dull, n…
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right. - Donald C. Peattie
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneou… - Donald C. Peattie
A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneou…
A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because … - Donald C. Peattie
A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because …
After all, time is not money. It is an opportunity to live before you die. - Donald C. Peattie
After all, time is not money. It is an opportunity to live before you die.
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