Health & Fitness
Fahrenheit 451
Cold mid-winter's day and yet I feel the heat of 451 degrees Fahrenheit!
"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies…a child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted you're there. It doesn't matter what you do…so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching. The lawn cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardner will be there a lifetime." -- Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451"
I read this book as a teen many years ago - reading it again as an adult hits a little bit closer to home.