“To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.” ThinkingMindTwoRunningTogetherYoungThreeIndividualFlowerGoes OnThousandRootsInstinctContraryTwo ThingsThoughtfulDiscoveringStemUnifyingAnomaliesYoung Minds Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.” YearsBeautifulGenerationsColorPoetFlowerGoes OnScientistAvailableBillionsBreedingPollen Author:George M. Church
“As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.” LongStillsLandFlowerGoes OnAbandonedHummingbirds Book:Ceremony Source: Ceremony