“The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the hundred-foot blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived. It is also the home of living things so small that your two hands might scoop up as many of them as there are stars in the Milky Way.” WayTwoHomeHandsMightStarsWhiteAnimalSeaFeetThousandOceanHundredBluePoundsParadoxKillersLiving ThingsSharksWhalesMilky WayTwo Hands Book:Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
“Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged main And fruitful lands- for all of living things Through thee alone are evermore conceived, Through thee are risen to visit the great sun- Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on, Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away, For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers, For thee waters of the unvexed deep Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky Glow with diffused radiance for thee!” MenEarthMotherStarsWaterSunSkyLandWindFlowerBearsDearCloudsDelightTheeRomeGoddessLiving ThingsRisenSereneRadianceVenusStormyEvermoreGlidingMakest Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)
“Feel the love of God; then in every person you will see the face of the Father, the light of love which is in all. You will find a magic, living relationship uniting the trees, the sky, the stars, all people, and all living things; and you will feel a oneness with them. This is the code of divine love.” PeopleFeelsPersonsLightFacesFatherStarsMagicTreeSkyDivineOnenessCodeGod LoveDivine LoveLiving ThingsUnitingLight Of Love Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked in a remote past in a dying star. The waters of ancient seas set the pattern of ions in our blood. The ancient atmospheres moulded our metabolism.” PastStarsWaterBloodSeaDyingLateAncientPatternsAtmosphereCompositionCarbonGalaxyLiving ThingsMetabolismIons Author:George Wald