Peter Steinhart quotes

“Maps are a way of organizing wonder.”
-- Peter Steinhart

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“Wind is a plant's only chance to make music.”
-- Peter Steinhart

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“[Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range of wolf experience; in fact, there are soft wolves and hard wolves, kind wolves and malicious wolves, soldiers and nurses, philosophers and bullies.”
-- Peter Steinhart

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“Humans are the only animals that draw. . . . Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood.”
-- Peter Steinhart

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“To the astrologer, or at least to what I call the analytical astrologer, the natal chart virtually represents a living map to the kingdom of heaven which lies within.”

“The body is the vehicle, consciousness the driver. Yoga is the path, and the chakras are the map.”

“Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.”

Source : Arthur Guiterman, “The Traveler”

“Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.”

Source : Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.23, Harmony

“I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.”

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.

“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”

“Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.”

“Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position”