It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
Robert Wilson LyndThere is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Wilson LyndThis is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.
Robert Wilson LyndWe cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.
Robert Wilson LyndThe last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth.
Robert Wilson Lynd