#pest

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#deepest #had #hardest #i #losing

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism. ↗

— Judy Chicago

#art #believe #concerns #deepest #feminism

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#completely #i #money #refugee #studying

Cry no tears for us, my friend.” I pry at her fingers, panicking to be released in fear that she may drag me into death with her. She croaks again, “Lend no aches to the dreams of yesterday.” From the corpse of Warren, his greyish gums smack from whatever goo has settled in his mouth, “Allow the tide sweep free the bay.” Then together they sing in zombie choir, “And home the ships sailing send. ↗

— Nathan Reese Maher

#cityspire #death #dreams #gothic #romance

oh, good, Pestilence is free," said Karou, heading towards the sculpture. Massive emperor and horse both wore gas masks, like every other statue in the place, and it had always put Karou in mind of the first horseman of the Apocalypse, Pestilence, sowing plaque with one outstretched arm. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#karou #pestilence #apocalypse

The average lawn is an interesting beast: people plant it, then douse it with artificial fertilizers and dangerous pesticides to make it grow and to keep it uniform-all so that they can hack and mow what they encouraged to grow. And woe to the small yellow flower that rears its head! ↗

— Michael Braungart

#landscaping #lawns #pesticides #environmentalism

My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#earth #man #quickest #sharpest

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. ↗

— Will Carleton

#beetle #drought #each #fall #farmer

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#banned #because #been #bees #disappeared

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#being #clear #every #existence #him