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• Come when the rains
  Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,
  While the slant sun of February pours
  Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach!
  The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps
  And the broad arching portals of the grove
  Welcome thy entering.

  William C. Bryant

  Rain, Light, Ice

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Winter Piece”

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• At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Spring, Men, Air

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• To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance of several tens of kilometers, to land on its satellite or even on its surface, what can be more fantastic? From the moment of using rocket devices a new great era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Distance, Moon, Rocks

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• The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Attention

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• I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it sometimes appears. My subjects are also often playful: I cannot refrain from demonstrating the nonsensicalness of some of what we take to be irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure to deliberately mix together objects of two and three dimensions, surface and spatial relationships, and to make fun of gravity.

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Fun, Two

  "Escher on Escher: exploring the infinite". Book by J. W. Vermeulen, H. N. Abrams, 1989.

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• Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

  Richard Ellmann

  Depth, Dies

  Richard Ellmann (2013). “Oscar Wilde”, p.510, Vintage

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• We usually do pay attention to our outer appearance, typically noticing whatever part of our bodies we are unhappy about. It behooves us, however, to get on very good terms with more than just the surface of our bodies as we grow older; for if we don't listen to our bodies and pay attention to our physical needs and pleasures, this vehicle that we need to be running well to take us into a long and comfortable life, will limit what we can do and who we become.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Running, Long, Unhappy

  Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jean Shinoda Bolen M. D. (2011). “Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Powerful, Space

  Donald Judd (2005). “Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews, Book Reviews, Articles, Letters to the Editor, Reports, Statements, Complaints”, Halifax, N.S. : Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

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• I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.

  Robert Ryman

  Real, Light, Space

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• When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface . . . You have to pause.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Healing, New Experiences, Pauses

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• I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Portraits, Faces

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• Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class.

  Richard Florida

  Creativity, Class, Creative

  Richard Florida (2014). “The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded”, p.7, Basic Books

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• From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Stars, Views, Molecules

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• Most people don't put things together. Geologists study the surface of the earth and geological phenomena. Meteorogists study the weather. That isn't science. Science is the study of all things that affect human beings. They have to be together! A meteorologist has difficulty talking with a sociologist, because they don't understand each other. You can't teach sciences in 'bits'; you have to bring it all together. Science is a way of thinking - a way at arriving at conclusions without your own opinion in it.

  Jacque Fresco

  Thinking, Talking, Weather

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• When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously. On the surface of the sea are multitudes of waves, but the sea is not affected below. In the deepest depths, at the bottom of the sea is all tranquility. So when you start meditating, try to feel your own inner existence first. That is to say, the bottom of the sea: calm and quiet. Feel that your whole being is surcharged with peace and tranquility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sea, Soul, Mind

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.264, Aum Publications

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• We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich humus of our lives.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Garden, Hands, Hoe

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• If your intentions are pure, if you apply your craft with a view to observe humanity and, ultimately, God himself, very often something powerful will surface.

  Yasmin Ahmad

  Powerful, Views, Humanity

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• Like a stone on the surface of a still river
  Driving the ripples on forever
  Redemption rips through the surface of time
  In the cry of a tiny babe.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Rip, Rivers, Forever

  Song: Cry Of A Tiny Babe, Album: Nothing But a Burning Light

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• Pro sports are a tough business--whether you're in baseball, football, or something else. But when you're running around the bases after hitting a home run or jumping up and down after a touchdown, a little boy comes to the surface.

  Roy Campanella

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.

  Joan Mitchell

  Space, Style, Use

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• For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.

  Rudy Rucker

  Moon, Shopping, Two

  "What Is Cyberpunk?". www.rudyrucker.com. February, 1986.

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• The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Lying, Trying

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• Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface

  Toby Hemenway

  Animal, Gardening, Earth

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• If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

  Danny Boyle

  Book, Ifs, Values

  "Interview: Danny Boyle Talks 127 Hours, James Franco, and Darren Aronofsky". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. November 18, 2010.

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• As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Silver, Sandy

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