“It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.” ShouldDifferentEarthGrowsTreeDogStrangeGrewRainRiversHorseBranchesLakesDifferent PlaceStrange ThingsMulesMagnoliasOxen Book:The Yearling Source: The Yearling
“This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth.” FeelsFirstsEarthTreeDrawsRootsExperienceApplesBranchesToesSapApple Trees Author:Frederick Franck
“Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.” PeopleWayHumansStoriesRunningEarthUniverseInterestHuman BeingsSunClearMankindStagePlanetsArmsUncomfortableBranchesJust OnePushingHumankindGalaxyLiving OnMillsSpiralsCenter Of The UniverseGreat FamilyFocal PointCenter Stage Author:Seth Lloyd
“It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it depends rather upon the fact that the evolutionary theory permeates and supports every branch of biological science, much as the notion of the roundness of the earth underlies all geodesy and all cosmological theories on which the shape of the earth has a bearing. Thus antievolutionism is of the same stature as flat-earthism.” FactsEarthNumbersSupportAtheismAcceptanceTheoryDependsEvolutionShapesEvidenceNotionProofBranchesFlatsStatureBiological Science Author:Peter Medawar
“There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.” FirstsWellsMeanSoulEarthLastsLiteratureHeavenKnowledgeOur LivesSeaTaughtAll ThingsGuidesBranchesInfinityCharmingModerationObscurityTaught UsLive WellOffenceImmensityMagnanimityFirsts And LastsDispleasureAbove And Below Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero