Large Spontaneous Avalanches

Famous quotes containing the words large and/or spontaneous:

    “Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.”
    —Maria Montessori (1870–1952)