Pablo Casals Quotes
I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.
Casals, Pablo, and Albert E. Kahn. Joys and Sorrows: Reflections by Pablo Casals as Told to Albert E. Kahn. Simon and Schuster, 1970, p. 19.
In many ways Jefferson saw himself as a scientist more than a politician. He personally studied and collected thousands of plant specimens.
Hastings founded a colony in Brazil for Confederates who were unwilling to live in the South during Reconstruction. He was trying to raise recruits. His book was effusive in its description of Brazil—without mentioning the yellow fever, poisonous animals, sweltering jungles and some of the less desirable elements of Brazil.
Pau Casals i Defilló, usually known in English by his Spanish name Pablo Casals, was a Spanish (Catalan) and Puerto Rican cellist, composer, and conductor. He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century and one of the greatest cellists of all time. He made many recordings throughout his career of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, including some as conductor, but he is perhaps best remembered for the recordings of the Bach Cello Suites he made from 1936 to 1939. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy (though the ceremony was presided over by Lyndon B. Johnson).
