“If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes - I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over.” IfsThinkingKnowsEarthJoyOceanImportanceAtmosphereGlimpseMajestyBeamMicrobes Author:Sylvia Earle
“Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.” MenLoveHumansHeartReasonEarthInterestHuman BeingsAnswersLove IsPleasureMillionsSunHugeThousandWeaponsWinterBlowConquerGiantsRebelClayMeltingReservedBeamSlumberHardenedOmnipotenceAgainst Love Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper
“An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.” EarthNightReligionHeavenGrowsEverlastingBrighterBeam Book:Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle Source: Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle
“Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.” FeelingsEarthHeavenCausesKindnessEffectsProduceSpringRainIceGentleBeneficialCoveringBeamSpring Rain Book:Hertha Source: Hertha
“I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the solar system, sendin' out beams of power and wisdom and law and order, and justice and injustice, and money and oratory, and talk and talk, and wind and everything, to the uttermost points of our vast possessions, and from them clear to the ends of the earth.” EndsCountryWantedEarthLawOrderJusticeSunClearWindCivilizationInjusticePossessionOur CountryBeamLaw And OrderSolar SystemCapitolOratoryJustice And Injustice Author:Marietta Holley