"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread."--Edward Abbey Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for a universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order" -- Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary of the Communist Party, speech to United Nations December 1988
"Fun fact: 60 million years ago a single asteroid wiped out 99% of the life on earth. #themoreyouknow?"---Moby Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.” ― Lewis Thomas
"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will." -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology". Carl Sagan
“Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.” ― David Fontana Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
In the modern world, where men walked ahead, after wars, it changed to women walking first Landmines Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Awkward interests me, he said. At least when you are feeling awkward you are always thinking. When you are feeling fabulous, for example, rare occurrence that it may be, you stop thinking altogether. Which gets you into all kinds of trouble. Hence, you are for the better off feeling awkward. Just the sound of it on your tongue. Like chewing on screws.” ― Elizabeth Brundage, The Doctor's Wife
Both sexes should be walking side by side . Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Out of respect .
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. ” ― Lewis Thomas Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself–and you are the easiest person to fool. Science is the only way to correct for our errors of perception and of attribution. It is the only way to make sure we are not fooling ourselves. Either Science-Based Medicine has not done a good job of explaining these vital facts, or some of our readers are unable or unwilling to understand our explanations. Richard Feynman:
“Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
