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“We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.”

“Major Greene this evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the argument he advanced was, "that a mere creature or finite being could not make satisfaction to infinite justice for any crimes," and that "these things are very mysterious." Thus mystery is made a convenient cover for absurdity.”

Source: Diary and Autobiography of John Adams: Diary, 1755-1770

“Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared.”

Way Heart Done Turns Loss Forget Healing Mystery Creatures Solitary One Love Love And Loss

Book:My sad republic

Source: My sad republic

“Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air, to renew the forests, to care for the plants, to protect the creatures, to celebrate the seas, to rejoice in the sunlight, to sing the song of the stars, to recall our destiny, to renew our spirits, to reinvigorate our bodies, to recreate the human community, to promote justice and peace, to love our children and love one another, to join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery, for the healing of the Earth and the renewal of all life.”

“The creatures of the sea hold special mystery, and they are among the most exciting, graceful, and beautiful on Earth. Just consider the living riot of a coral reef, the beauty of an albatross, the awesome power of a giant turtle, the grace of a dolphin. Now multiply that by the millions of creatures in the sea. Wow!”

Earth Beautiful Millions Grace Mystery Sea Special Creatures Exciting Giants Wow Riot Dolphins Turtles Reefs Coral Reefs Albatross

Author:Carl Safina

“This creature is the Pooka. Pay no mind to the shape he wears, for he’s none of his own, and no soul either. Ware him ever, trust him never, but when the wind’s right he has his uses. Never forget that you will never know him. The Pooka’s mystery even to the Pooka.”

Knows Mind Soul Use Forget Pay Mystery Wind Shapes Creatures Never Forget

Author:Peter S. Beagle

“Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.”

World Doe Pleasure Mystery Food Ignorance Depends Gratitude Creatures Eating Connections Dependence

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays

“What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it sometimes seemed to him that venial sins--impatience, an unimportant lie, pride, a neglected opportunity--cut you off from grace more completely than the worst sins of all. Then, in his innocence, he had felt no love for anyone; now in his corruption he had learnt.”

Has Beens Sometimes Lying Opportunity Felt Sin Grace Cutting Mystery Worst Pride Creatures Corruption Innocent Innocence Unbearable Neglected Impatience Unimportant No Love

Book:The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

“If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.”

Ifs Men World Heart Mystery Color Creatures Limits Bounds Horrible Aliens Beast Wilderness Alienation

Book:Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!”

Humans Heart Facts Night House Rooms Secret Cities Wonderful Mystery Creatures Profound Breasts Consideration Solemn Great Cities Tale Of Two Cities

Author:Charles Dickens

“Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.”

Knows World Kind Might Would Be Choices Courses Peace Perfect Mystery Danger Creatures Solutions Opposites Philosopher Paradox Imperfect Finding Peace A Perfect World Imperfect World

Book:Duke Elric

Source: Duke Elric

“…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.”

Men Believe Self Sometimes Matter Would Be Faces Powerful Mystery Creatures Men And Women Fellows Blind Possession Impulse Persistence Strongest Assertion Binding Unsolved Mysteries

Author:Kate Chopin