“I think if I had to choose, I would rather have gravity instead of zero gravity. It's fun for a while, but I'd rather live on Earth.” IfsThinkingEarthFunZeroGravityZero Gravity Author:Kevin A. Ford
“We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours , stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.” DreamBodyEarthHoursSleepSubstanceEncountersMusclesAllowingWakingGravityStirringNeuronsAbram Author:David Abram
“Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.” KindBodyEarthVirtueStonesUnionsAffectionMutualGravityMagneticConjunctions Author:Johannes Kepler
“Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points.” MadeTwoBodyEarthMovingForceSpacePathGravityOrbitStraight Path Book:A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes Source: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
“On Earth, much of the wrenching discomfort of emesis, apart from the sensation of nausea itself, is from the coordination of many muscles it takes to counter gravity.” EarthMusclesSensationsGravityDiscomfortCoordinationNausea Author:Vanna Bonta
“Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced in zero gravity was similar to this, expulsion without the heaves.” EarthAnimalFlowZeroStomachGravityContractionsExpulsionZero GravityAbdominals Author:Vanna Bonta
“A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.” LightEarthFallWaterHoursKeysSpeciesWaveFlatsGravityMinorsBellyHarborsCaressRush Hour Book:The Blaze of the Poui: Poems Source: The Blaze of the Poui: Poems
“When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each person where their mind stops and their eyes open. I want us to be together as if we were lying in a field on the underside of the earth on a clear summer night, held only by the magnet of gravity, looking down into a bottomless sea of stars. I want us to remember together the beauty all around us.” IfsWantMindPersonsMomentsHelpingProblemEyeEarthTogetherRememberLyingNightStarsClearSeaFieldsStudentsSummerSolveGravityWant UMagnetLooking DownSummer Nights Author:Jack Kornfield