Robert Pyle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

But make no mistake: the weeds will win: nature bats last.
-- Robert Pyle

#Weed #Mistake #Winning
Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can.
-- Robert Pyle

#Fall #Winter #Wind
What is the extinction of a condor to a child who has never seen a wren?
-- Robert Pyle

#Children #Extinction #Wrens
You can see that there is scarcely an observable fact unworthy of mention in your notes, and yet you could easily spend more time scribbling than watching, and that would defeat the purpose. So be selective, don't be compulsive, and enjoy your note-taking.
-- Robert Pyle

#Purpose #Facts #Defeat

Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.
An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.
It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
When you have success on the field, you're more popular and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say. You're still going to make mistakes from time to time, but you represent an even greater population and people are that much more looking for you to be in the wrong place at the wrong time or fall down or say something really stupid that's going to get you in trouble.
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

Robert Pyle famous quotes

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