Quotation:
“I keep uncovering more and more evidence for a Murphy’s Law of publishing: that if a book is truly wonderful, it is certain to be out of print.”
Roger Deakin – ‘Notes from Walnut Tree Farm’
Building a Cairn of "Small Stones" and other random musings
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in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, Murphy's Law, publishing, quotation, Roger Deakin
Quotation:
“I keep uncovering more and more evidence for a Murphy’s Law of publishing: that if a book is truly wonderful, it is certain to be out of print.”
Roger Deakin – ‘Notes from Walnut Tree Farm’
09 Nov 2018 2 Comments
in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, John Maxewell Edmonds, Laurence Binyon, remembrance
“For your tomorrow
We gave our today.”
Attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds (1875-1958)
“At the going down of the sun and in the Morning
We will remember them.”
from ‘For the Fallen’ by Laurence Binyon
28 Mar 2018 3 Comments
in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, seasons, spring, winter
“No matter how long the Winter,
Spring is sure to follow.”
Proverb in various traditions.
14 Feb 2018 4 Comments
in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, book, nature, pages, understand, walk
“Whosoever would understand the book of nature
must walk its pages with his feet.”
Paracelsus
27 Nov 2017 7 Comments
in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, fishing, fossil fuel, quotations, rubbish, RYA Magazine
“In one year, three times as much rubbish is dumped into the world’s oceans as fish are caught, by weight.”
(From the RYA Members magazine. Winter 2017)
19 Aug 2016 5 Comments
in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, Arthur Schopenhauer, limits, vision, world
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision
for the limits of the world.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
17 Aug 2016 5 Comments
in aros, Quotations Tags: aros, awakes, Carl Jung, dreams, inside, outside
“Who looks outside, dreams;
Who looks inside, awakes.”
Carl Jung
29 Jul 2016 2 Comments
in aros, cycling, Quotations Tags: aros, bicycle, cycling, feminists, husbands, woman
This one is specially for the feminists among you! :
“The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.”
Ann Strong, Minneapolis Tribune 1895
27 Jul 2016 4 Comments
in aros, cycling, Quotations Tags: aros, bike, cycling, raining, sun
“To me it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world.
Mark Cavendish (“The Manx Missile”)
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