William Cronon Quotes

We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we return home seeking to enact this wisdom as best we can in our daily lives.

William Cronon

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• Environment
• Challenges
• Ecology
• Sanctuary

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• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Used
  • Furniture
  • Meant To Be

• When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Words
  • inspirational

• Love is a credulous thing.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Thing

• A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Safe
  • Worlds
  • Untrue

• I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Think
  • Chance
  • Isolation

• Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Father
  • Government
  • Gun

• I think what's happening for me, it's fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It's fun to see Instagram become a major player. It's fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Player

• I don't believe you! You're a liar! … Play it fucking loud!

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Believe
  • Liar

• Fashion is instant. It makes you feel something the second you see it on a body... whether you love it or hate it, or it offends you, or it makes you laugh or cry.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Hate
  • Fashion

• Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Rap

• I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me!

  

  Emma Watson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • Society
  • Knowledge

• Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

  

  Deborah Cox
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Night

• I think I have a gene in me to always fight for the underdog, which I've done since I was a kid.

  

  Lois Frankel
  • Done

• I don't think most people who listen to music are that interested in all the work that goes into making it. It's the artist you like.

  

  Max Martin
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

  

  Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Player
  • Brother

• I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Remember
  • Myself
  • Sunset

• It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Guy
  • Evil
  • Fighting

• I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • School
  • Friends
  • House

• A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Honor
  • Self
  • Injury

• We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we return home seeking to enact this wisdom as best we can in our daily lives.

  

  William Cronon
  • Remember
  • Environment
  • Challenges