“I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources can even support, and if everybody were to have a high standard of living, we need three or four or five new planets to provide the resources. And this cannot be, so something has to change.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsThreeNaturalSupportFiveFourPlanetsHugeStandardsResourcesNatural ResourcesStandards Of LivingHigh Standards Author:Jane Goodall
“And in these four things, opinion of ghosts , ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear , and taking of things casual for prognostics , consisteth the natural seed of religion ; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments and passions of several men, has grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.” MenDifferentReasonUsedPassionCausesNaturalOpinionFourIgnoranceJudgmentSeedsRidiculousGhostDevotionFancyOne ManCeremonyCasual Book:Leviathan Source: Leviathan
“It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.” MenShouldStatesCharacterActionLawStarsProcessNaturalDealsCommonSecretFourDirectSatRebellionDespiseRoyalCouncilChamberPillarsDecreePromptsPrerogativeJurisdictionCommon Law Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919 Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919
“For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.” ChildrenLittlesBookThreeParentNaturalFictionFourWeekChildhoodHorrorLibraryLocalsCinemaSci FiThrillersRubberFoamStoolsNatural HistoryDevouringOrigami Author:David Nicholls
“While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures according to natural temperament which make up the natures of all the different animals of the world, each after its kind.” WorldKindDifferentBodyNaturalAnimalFourAirElementsHeatTemperamentMixturesMoistureDifferent AnimalsFour Elements Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms and not simply computerized brains. By focusing totally on the present, thinking only about science and computers, and forgetting four billion years of life on this planet, we are losing perspective on who and what we are.” ThinkingWayYearsMeanLostNaturalForgetBrainFourPlanetsPerspectiveComputerLosingBillionsOrganismsNatural HistoryYears Of Life Author:Robert Neelly Bellah