Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?
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Time is the rider that breaks youth.
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
The world is a living image of God.
The world is a living image of God.
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that read more
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate read more
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
