“Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it.” CareProgressDevelopmentGardenPlantRhythmGarden Love Book:MAKING THINGS GROW Source: MAKING THINGS GROW
“I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.” MenMeanLongSeemsCareHappinessHumanityIndividualProgressGoodnessIdealsMereSpeciesLongevityI CareIndividual Life Author:C. S. Lewis
“I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.” IfsHumansLittlesSoulEndsMightCareGrowsResultsConsciousnessProgressRevolutionMessagesRegardPropertyFollowingSeedsTinyStatementsCosmicPredictableKrishnaMantrasPedestalEnd ResultsHaresSmashingTwigsPenetrationAfterthoughtFortuitousHare Krishna Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.” ChildrenCareAgeEducationProgressTeachingTerribleWeaponsDestructionMercyIntelligentNuclear Weapons Author:Pearl S. Buck
“Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is 'Am I progressing?'” MatterCareRunningRaceProgressWho Cares Author:Robin Sharma
“A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.” WaySelfCareArtistBitsCareersTakenProgressEverydaySelf Worth Book:Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance