Excursions – Page 2

What I do, the

What I do, the teacher of the nagual, is open up the bubble of your luminosity and allow the luminous being to take short excursions into the unknown. Frederick Lenz

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. Franz Grillparzer

Decades of indoctrination, manipulation,

Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven’t altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and, if they don’t get it, have a tendency to initiate counterrevolution. Frank Zappa

And, after boasting this

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I … Read more

I wanted no more

I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. F. Scott Fitzgerald

I felt that I

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. F. Scott Fitzgerald

The essayist is a

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. He is a fellow who thoroughly enjoys his work, just as people who enjoy bird walks enjoys theirs. Each new excursion of the essayist, each new ‘attempt,’ differs from the … Read more

[My] excursions provided a

[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas’ behavior] in their natural habitat… Then, all too soon, the infants were demanded for their trip to the zoo. … [H]appily the babies did not know they would never see their mountain home again Dian Fossey

I drive a V10

I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I’ve got five kids and a dog and birds. I would have to have two Lincolns with two V8s, you see, so it would be 16 cylinders. Dan Aykroyd

Nature is, in fact,

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven. Charles Dudley Warner