Flaubert's Errand #5

5 exquisitely crafted sentences of prose I encountered in my recent reading.

"The ideal project is one where people don’t have meetings, they have lunch."

Fast Company:: Lunch Hunch II

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"Nature’s bounty is not easy to count, partly because she was kind enough not to bill us for it."

The Economist :: The world’s wealth is looking increasingly unnatural

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"Consider the earth’s history as the old measure of the English yard, the distance from the king’s nose to the tip of his outstretched hand. One stroke of a nail file on his middle finger erases human history."

Long Now Blog :: Six Ways to Think Long-term: A Cognitive Toolkit for Good Ancestors

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"The best businesses take unpromising inputs and conjure from them a stable stream of profits."

The Economist :: The Golden Hoard

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“No additional book about her is strictly necessary, but then neither is chocolate.” (Victoria Glendinning on Virginia Woolf)

Five Books :: Alexandra Harris on Modernism

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