“What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns of the sea? The Extreme Life of the Sea is an insightful book that inspires awe and wonder about our ocean, and brilliantly shows us the immense possibilities of life on Earth.” WayBookStoriesShowsEarthWonderSeaPossibilityInspireOceanBlindExtremesAweImmortalInsightfulImmenseWormsZombieBetter WaysUnicornAwe And WonderJellyfish Author:Enric Sala
“Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.” PeopleIfsGivingLooksLittlesSeemsEarthMovingLostWonderBeautyBlindExcitementDesperate Author:Pablo Casals
“Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.” ThinkingWorldWayEarthBeliefSinFineEvolutionBlindCosmosNew WaysInvitedWay Of ThinkingAdmirableEccentricBlind FaithUnchangingSpunSpecksRationaleCausationCobwebsNew Ways Of Thinking Author:Adrian Desmond
“But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.” WorldLooksTwoEndsMomentsEarthLyingSpaceExistenceWonderBirthIllusionUniversalFundamentalsBlindPaintAppearanceVainEndeavorHidingMinorsCanvasTime And SpaceDwellingCelestialWovenIllusorySpunWarp Book:Carlyle Reader Source: Carlyle Reader
“Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon the earth. Their hard lot becomes his, and his, in turn, becomes the lot of all who shall come after him. Drawn on inexorably by time, it is not given him to see the next rung on which his faltering foot shall fall. Bounded in knowledge, it is not given him to foretell what each succeeding hour, what each succeeding minute, shall have in store for him. In blind nescience, in an agony of foreboding, in a whirl of hopes and fears, he completes the cycle of an iron destiny.” MenHardEarthHumanityTurnsFallNextNamesGivenBornHoursDestinyFeetMinutesHe ManSucceedAll ThingsBlindAssumingStoresIronCyclesAgonyHopes And FearsForebodingFaltering Author:Leonid Andreyev
“In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' decree: "Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself.” KnowsMenWorldMayMadeEarthFacesGivenSportsSinFiveSeaSkyFairsBlindNeighborWitPhrasesFollyWoeDwellingDecreeDwelling Place Book:The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection
“All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.” MenEarthFitFameEmptyPraiseBlindFruitRewardsPainfulSeekingDeedsSuperstitionsZealRetribution Author:Don DeLillo
“My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.” IfsFirstsBelieveLittlesEarthWishCausesAcceptingAtheismSonHeroUnderstoodRegardBlindAssMy SonMonkeysPropositionsDeafAntithesisBaboonsFoals Book:Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues Source: Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues
“The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind.” ImportantBigsEarthPlansBlindRealizationFaithfulServantEndeavorFaithful Servants Author:Winston Churchill