“I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.” PeopleThinkingFeelsHumansLittlesFormNightWaterLosesHuman BeingsResultsCompassionFivePiecesAirBedSightBillionsNoisePursueMeatPushingAggressiveIndividualismIsolatedFulfilledLonesomeNight Thinking Author:Devin Townsend
“Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.” WorldWayLooksDifficultRealizingResultsCommonAirExampleDesignFieldsEvolutionCapableBirdLifestyleFlightFormerBehaveRelatedLatterSevereInsectsCatchingConstraintsAncestryAnatomyResemblanceHawksBiologistHabitatOld WorldVultureTaxonomyStorks Author:Jared Diamond
“Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct, that the wonderful child should be deprived of all books and study, and turned to play or work in the fresh air.” MenShouldChildrenBookStatesPlayResultsBrainCasesStudyWonderfulAirDirectMedicalUnusualDeprivedUnhealthyFresh AirWonderful Children Author:Catharine Beecher
“I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.” BelieveHumansI BelieveWaterResultsProgressAirCreationLimitsAviationPredictionsPenetrateNavigationHuman Will Author:Victor Hugo
“Very few people realize the damage even one mercury vapor light can inflict on birds, air quality and human sleep patterns. It a serious problem that is rapidly growing and it will take all of us to take action before we see results.” PeopleHumansProblemLightActionRealizingSleepResultsQualityGrowingAirSeriousBirdPatternsDamageMercuryVaporAir Quality Author:Will Young
“A fish is free as long as it stays in the water. If it suddenly declares that it wants its freedom to fly in the air like a bird, disaster occurs. A train is free as long as it stays on the track. However, if it demands freedom to take off down a major highway, the result is destruction and devastation. We too can only experience true freedom in its fullest if we remain within the framework of freedom. Often this requires accepting responsibility and practicing discipline.” IfsWantLongWaterResultsResponsibilityAcceptingAirDisciplineDemandMajorsBirdDestructionTrainTrackFishesDisasterHighwaysFrameworkDevastationTrue FreedomAccepting Responsibility Author:Gigi Graham
“When there is enough oxygen in the air for everyone, no one is going to take to violence in order to access it. But if there were not enough of it for everyone then people would result to violence in order to get it. Therefore we have to improve the conditions to have better human beings.” PeopleIfsHumansEnoughOrderHuman BeingsResultsViolenceAirConditionsAccessOxygen Author:Shirin Ebadi
“None of the individual metal hunks of an airplane have the property of flight, but when they are attached together in the right way, the result takes to the air. A thin metal bar won't do you much good if you're trying to control a jaguar, but several of them in parallel have the property of containment. The concept of emergent properties means that something new can be introduced that is not inherent in any of the parts.” IfsWayTryingMeanTogetherIndividualResultsAirConceptsPropertyBarsSomething NewMetalsAirplaneInherentRight WayParallelsHunkJaguarsContainment Author:David Eagleman