For more than a decade, I’ve maintained a list of quotes I like by poets, writers, and thinkers I find interesting. This post is part of that series. All posts in the series are organized alphabetically.

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Social media is biased, not to the Left or the Right, but downward. ― Jaron Lanier

I rhyme with the ground / and all at once it falls / apple I am apple / apple severed from tree / not the snake or the woman but tree itself is discovery / a force based on the world — Maryrose Larkin

The January days / are raspy whispers, netting / your thoughts into scrum and bother. — Mercedes Lawry

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise. ― Aldo Leopold

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business—everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. — David Lynch

We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. — David Lynch