I have always loved butterflies.

Winston Churchill · My Early Life (1930)

I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 4 December 1952

Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.

Winston Churchill · Article “Consistency in Politics”, Pall Mall, July 1927

At any rate it was a good price—£5,000. Look at me—£25 dead or alive. How would you like that?

Winston Churchill · To Michael Collins, who complained that a price had been put on his head

To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Rebecca Solnit · The source reads: “If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason—its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.” · Storming the Gates of Paradise (2007)

All gardening is landscape-painting.

Alexander Pope

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

Garrett Hardin · The source reads: “Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.” · The Tragedy of the Commons (1968)

“I have always loved butterflies.”

“I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.”

“Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.”

“At any rate it was a good price—£5,000. Look at me—£25 dead or alive. How would you like that?”

“To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.”

“All gardening is landscape-painting.”

“Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.”

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