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When we experience the Earth as holy ... our actions may change from control and destruction of the Earth, to living in respect for and communion with the Earth. Without air, water, soil, vegetation, there's no human life ... the Earth is literally our body.
--source unknown.
saved 09/22/2018, 3:07 pm

But if you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.
--source unknown.
saved 09/24/2018, 11:08 am

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
--Charles Darwin.
saved 09/24/2018, 5:42 pm

When we reflected that this is not a solitary phenomenon, never to happen again, but that it would happen forever and ever an infinite number of evenings, and cheer and reassure the latest child that walked there, it was more glorious still.
--Henry David Thoreau
saved 09/30/2018, 11:18 am

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade.
--John Muir
saved 09/30/2018, 12:35 pm

Whether you will or not
You are a King, Tristram, for you are one
Of the time-tested few that leave the world,
When they are gone, not the same place it was.
Mark what you leave.
--Edwin Arlington Robinson
saved 10/03/2018, 11:08 pm

Humanity can never fully know what it is about; for the reasoning mind gains insight into one reality only by casting shadows upon another.
--source unknown
saved 10/20/2018, 4:54 pm

Not only are we architects of evolutionary theory, but we are also the beings in whole the universe becomes self-conscious and through whom it is able to reflect upon itself.
--source unknown
saved 10/20/2019, 5:17 pm

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why I bother to get up in the mornings.
--Richard Dawkins
saved 12/15/2018, 4:32 pm

Nobody lies awake worrying about gaps in the fossil record. Many people lie awake worrying about abortion and drugs and the decline of the family and gay marriage and all of the other things that are opposed to so-called 'moral values.'
--Michael Ruse
saved 01/04/2019, 4:25 pm

If you are depressed, you are in history. If you are anxious, you are in the future. If you are at peace, you are present.
--source unknown
saved 01/23/2019, 10:53 pm

I don't remember what my aspirations were.
--source unknown
saved 01/26/2019, 2:00 am

How feeble is Art in her imitation of Nature.
--source unknown
saved 02/05/2019, 2:53 pm

I posit that there is no distinguishing between times I am glad not to remember and times that could only be as good as they were at the cost of retaining any memory.
--source unknown
saved 02/05/2019, 6:34 pm

Don't try to change the world. Find something that you love, and do it every day. Do that for the rest of your life and eventually the world will change.
--Macklemore, "Growing Up"
saved 02/18/2019, 11:05 am

And you keep wishing you were numbers
You multiply you cannot be found
You grieve
Not that heaven does not exist but
That it exists without us
--W.S. Merwin, "The Widow"
saved 03/18/2019, 11:55 pm

Be still my indelible friend, you are unbreaking.
--Hozier, "Wasteland, Baby!"
saved 03/31/2019, 1:29 pm

But I am old and sick. It's true, life ends.
--source unknown
saved 04/01/2019, 12:24 am

The first step in making society better is caring about things that don't affect you directly.
--source unknown
saved 04/27/2019, 9:33 am

On the other hand fear becomes easier to master when the patient's mind is diverted from the thing feared to the fear itself...
--C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters
saved 05/19/2019, 9:48 am

He wants all things to be able to recognise all creatures (even himself) as glorious and excellent things. He wants to kill their self-love as soon as possible: but it is His long-term policy, I fear, to retire them to a new kind of self-love -- a charity and gratitude for all selves, including their own; when they have really learned to love their neighbors as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbors.
--C.S. Lewis on God, The Screwtape Letters
saved 05/13/2019, 5:36 pm

In a word, the Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time -- for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
--C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
saved 05/13/2019, 5:36 pm

We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain -- not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
--C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
saved 05/17/2019, 9:55 pm

Here's a crazy idea, let them live until they die of old age. Is there any crueler a punishment than life itself and all the drama and little toe-stubbing-into-door-frame there is?
--Facebook comment
saved 05/23/2019, 11:35 pm

Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have.
--Rabbi Hyman Schachtel
saved 06/11/2019, 9:53 pm

Economics are the method, the object is to change the heart and soul.
--Margaret Thatcher
saved 06/14/2019, 1:41 pm

You scroll through your phone contacts in your moment of deepest need and believe that there isn't a single person who would help you without resenting you. At that moment you feel as if you've been lying to yourself all along about how much you matter.
--source unknown
saved 06/20/2019, 7:51 pm

After feeling like I am just being dragged by time through life rather than actually being able to participate in it, my greatest desire is that if I lie down and stop moving, that maybe I will just cease to exist.
--source unknown
saved 06/20/2019, 7:51 pm

And every time that song comes on, it's about me.
--Jonas Brothers, "Cool"
saved 08/05/2019

see year 2