William Cronon Quotes
We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word “home.”
Quotes to Explore
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When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
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I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
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I don't want to be a pretty boy.
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I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
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Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.
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Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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Je reculeÉbloui de me voir moi même tout vermeilEt d’avoir, moi, le coq, fait élever le soleil.
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It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.
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Contrast is the dramatist's method.
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When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and kept on dragging.
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In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
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I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."
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I hope there is an edge to what I do.
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All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.
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The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
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They were like two enemies in love with one another.
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People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics - are simply accepted as given, as brute facts. Nobody asks where they came from; at least not in polite company. However, even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith that the universe is not absurd, that there is a rational basis to physical existence manifested as law-like order in nature that is at least partly comprehensible to us. So science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview.
