“I’ll always remember a customs officer of Quito: every time I had to beg for a visa, he asked me for my profession. Whenever I answered: “Writer”, he replied: “I asked for your profession”.” — Luis Sepùlveda
“There was an old man with a beard,
Who said: “It is just as I feared -
Two owls and a hen,
Four larks and a wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard.”
— Edward Lear, The Book of Nonsense (via Fuck Yeah Beards)
Thoreau Lives (via cbg_rocketfever)
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian” — Sir Paul McCartney
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“There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.” — Henry David Thoreau (via poetryofthedeed) (via fuckyeahthoreau)