“Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“The principle obstacle to human dominion over the rain forests is still the rich variety of parasites lying in wait for intruders.”
Source: Plagues and Peoples (1976), Ch.1 "Man the Hunter".
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“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
“Who hopes by strange variety to please,
Puts dolphins among forests, boars in seas.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 172
“These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain”
Janet Fitch (1955) American writer
Source: Paint it Black
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1910 - 1935, The mysteries of the forest' (1934)
“A hidden spark of the dream sleeps in the forest and waits in the celestial spheres of the brain.”
Dejan Stojanovic book Circling: 1978-1987
”In Search of Spark,” p. 62
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Warden with No Keys”