“In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn't pay to tell that to the local politicians or other organizational structures that run the place that. They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.” SaidStatesRunningEarthHumanityChristPayBrainPlanetsBuddhismPoliticianNormalPoliceStructurePrisonLocalsInsaneCampsPlanet EarthOrganizationalGestapoOrganizational Structure Author:Frederick Lenz
“We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.” MeanEnoughEarthPastScienceHeavenWaterToo MuchFieldsMaterialsElementsNormalSpringRainRelationForestsProportionMaintainingDewMeadowsPermanencePastures Book:So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh
“Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners.” LifeEarthLinesAlivePerspectiveLuckyNormalSpringPercentDiedWinnerDawnMisfortunesCosmicAncestorOrganismsLiving ThingsOffspringUnbroken Author:Daniel Dennett
“The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the dinosaurs, which create new opportunities, and all sorts of new forms spring up... So, quite often, the reasons for creativity depend on accidents or disasters that prevent the normal habits being carried out.” KnowsReasonEarthFormOpportunityCreativityDependsHabitNormalSpringAccidentsDisasterExtinctionDinosaursNew OpportunitySpeciation Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“One thing I've found that's really helpful in our relationship is that she's [Anna Faris] very normal. And I don't mean ordinary - I mean, she doesn't act like a big star or a comic icon or anything like that. She's really down-to-earth and sweet, and we do talk about comedy, about movies, about our careers and possible projects.” MeanBigsEarthFoundStarsCareersComedyOne ThingSweetNormalProjectsOrdinaryComicHelpfulOur RelationshipIconsAnnaDown To Earth Author:Chris Pratt
“Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.” MenTwoWholeEarthWalksDealsBehaviorNormalMethodPatternsLegsBiologyExplainingMammalsHistory Of Life Author:Elaine Morgan