“That awkward moment when you leave a store without buying anything and all you can think is ‘act natural, you’re innocent.’”— Unknown, tcat.tc
“Lemurs are close to the ancestral stock from which all primates arose, and I am happy to think that one of my own ancestors, 50 million years ago, was a little tree-dwelling creature not so dissimilar to the lemurs of today. I love their leaping vitality, their inquisitive nature.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“Now, as I wandered in the cycad forest on Rota, it seemed as if my senses were actually enlarging, as if a new sense, a time sense, was opening within me, something which might allow me to appreciate millennia or aeons as directly as I had experienced seconds or minutes.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“The primeval, the sublime, are much better words here — for they indicate realms remote from the moral or the human, realms which force us to gaze into immense vistas of space and time, where the beginnings and originations of all things lie hidden.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“But gardens, Eden or Kew, are not the right metaphors here, for the primeval has nothing to do with the human, but has to do with the ancient, the aboriginal, the beginning of all things.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“I find myself walking softly on the right undergrowth beneath the trees, not wanting to crack a twig, to crush or disturb anything in the least--for there is such a sense of stillness and peace that the wrong sort of movement, even one's very presence, might be fest as an intrusion, and, so to speak…”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“The beauty of the forest is extraordinary — but “beauty” is too simple a word, for being here is not just an aesthetic experience, but one steeped with mystery, with awe”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“I know I have a signature. I know there’s a New England sensibility. I know there’s a cowboy sensibility. I think there’s a sports sensibility. They’re all mixed. But they all come from non-fashion. They all have an origin of being natural, timeless, real—comfortable sensibilities.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“I don't play that far away from myself because then I think people would say I was acting.”— Telly Savalas, m.imdb.com
“There is no perfect ending to a relationship. No magic formula. Just a silent scream as they rip your f*cking heart out.”— Michael Faudet, amazon.com
“Nothing is more common than good things: the point in question is only to discriminate them; and it is certain that they are all natural and within our reach and even known to all mankind.”— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com
“There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“The sea is not surer of the shore, or the shore of the sea, then he is of the fruition of his love, and of all perfection and beauty.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“I am he that walks with the tender and growing night; I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.”— Marc Jacobs, goodreads.com