Another good one - in Chopta, courtesy Uttarakhand forest department
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A snake-charmer and his noseless wife,
snake in hand, walk carefully
trying to read omens for a son's wedding
but they meet head-on a noseless woman
and her snake-charming husband,
and cry "The omens are bad!"
His own wife has no nose;
there's a snake in his hand.
What shall I call such fools
who do not know themselves
and see only the others,
O lord of the meeting rivers!
(vacana by Basavanna. from Speaking of Siva translated by A.K Ramanujan)
snake in hand, walk carefully
trying to read omens for a son's wedding
but they meet head-on a noseless woman
and her snake-charming husband,
and cry "The omens are bad!"
His own wife has no nose;
there's a snake in his hand.
What shall I call such fools
who do not know themselves
and see only the others,
O lord of the meeting rivers!
(vacana by Basavanna. from Speaking of Siva translated by A.K Ramanujan)
I’d rather be a forest than a street,
I’d rather feel the earth beneath my feet.
Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.
(J.B.S Haldane)
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