“The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion of organic diversity in our tough and constantly stressful world. And if we do not grasp the fundamental nature of branching as the key to life's passage across the geological stage, we will never understand evolution aright.” IfsWorldLyingBehindsProgressTreeStageKeysEvolutionDiversityToughFundamentalsPersistenceMarchPassagesExpansionStressfulVigorousValor Book:I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History Source: I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History
“As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying on the floor together with alabaster jars, whole and broken, and coloured pottery vases; all pertaining to some disturbed burial, but telling us nothing to whom they belonged further than by their type which was of the late XVIIIth Dyn. These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering.” WholeTogetherLyingFoundWaterObjectsBrokenTypeElementsLateSkinsPassagesFragmentsDisturbingDisturbedSealsJarsBurialPotteryVasesRubbleLying On The FloorSmall Objects Author:Howard Carter
“Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.” MenLyingChristianityTeachAtheismWidePretendingPassages Author:Benjamin Stillingfleet