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“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.”

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.”

Life Earth Lines Alive Perspective Lucky Normal Spring Percent Died Winner Dawn Misfortunes Cosmic Ancestor Organisms Living Things Offspring Unbroken

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.”

Knows Reason Earth Form Opportunity Creativity Depends Habit Normal Spring Accidents Disaster Extinction Dinosaurs New Opportunity Speciation

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring.”

Years Seems Willing Cold Normal Late Spring Dry Wet Complaints

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Whether children are good or bad, brilliant or just about normal, enormously popular or born loners, they keep their cool and say just the right thing at all times...even when they are miserable themselves, inexhaustible springs of emotional energy, reserved just for children, keep flowing unabated.”

People Want Needs Giving Children Energy Parent Born Ability Emotional Demand Normal Spring Brilliant All Time Miserable Right Thing Vary Reserved Loner Emotional Energy

Author:Stella Chess

“There's no doubt 'normal' is changing - spring actually came a month early in Alaska, for example, and we had to stop filming.”

Doubt Example Months Normal Spring No Doubt Alaska

Author:Travis Rice

“Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal. Peeping chicks at Easter time, spring generally, a clear sunrise after an overcast week--a miracle, people say, as if they've been educated from greeting cards.”

People Ifs Long Used Clear Week Events Normal Spring Let Me Miracle Cards Educated Pleasant Sunrise Easter Chicks Greetings Peeping Overcast Greeting Card Easter Time

Book:Peace Like a River

Source: Peace Like a River

“Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.”

Given Growth Normal Spring Seasons Seasons Change New Growth Crown Duel

Author:Sherwood Smith

“My life and most people's lives are a series of little miracles -- strange coincidences which spring from uncontrollable impulses and give rise to incomprehensible dreams. We spend a lot of time pretending that we are normal, but underneath the surface each one of us knows that he or she is unique.”

People Knows Giving Littles Dream Strange Normal Unique Spring Miracle Series Surface Impulse Pretending Coincidence Uncontrollable

Book:My Week with Marilyn

Source: My Week with Marilyn