In contrast to the values of morality, which depend on and encourage our similarities to each other, values like friendship or beauty depend on and encourage our differences. Ultimately, friendship is essential to our fashioning ourselves in ways that don't simply repeat the fashions of our surroundings: it is a mechanism of individuality.
All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we're stubborn, but that's our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad.
The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.
Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails.
Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.
Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.
Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.
Theatrically, you are aware of every part of you in acting; every component of your surroundings, including the clothes you wear. Eh. . . in voiceover, shorts and a t-shirt and badaboom. . . done.
I'm painfully aware of my surroundings at all times.
Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.
My work is purely autobiographical. . . It is about myself and my surroundings.
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.
Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
When you're not doing fiction, there's a limit to how much illustrating you can do with your work. I mean, you can do fine. There are great non-fiction writers, but people aren't necessarily going to say anything that reveals them as much as a picture might. Even their surroundings, in lot of cases, the things that meant the most to me were the things I noticed in their houses. I was always looking, as much as I was listening to them. I was looking around for clues as to why I was there.
I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.
Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.