Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Ross Parmenter

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian author Ross Parmenter.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Ross Parmenter

Ross Parmenter was a Canadian music critic, editor, and author who was primarily active in New York City. He wrote several books on Mexico and was a news editor and staff writer at The New York Times for 30 years.

The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we all must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone.
In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.
True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehension as well as physical perception. Yet how rarely we have either. We generally only glance at an object long enough to tag it with a name.
True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception. — © Ross Parmenter
True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception.
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