“We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the restoration of natural environments, in order to enlarge wild populations and stanch the hemorrhaging of biological wealth. There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.” ShouldStillsAgePurposeOrderNaturalWealthRaceEnvironmentDiversityMereSpeciesPopulationSurroundRestorationWondrousNatural EnvironmentSalvageDiversity Of Life Author:E. O. Wilson
“The mere fact that so many who espouse such far-right views and beliefs still exist in this society is incarnate proof that Darwin's theories apply solely to biological processes and not to processes of the spirit.” StillsFactsSpiritPoliticsBeliefProcessViewsTheoryMereProofThis Society Author:Derek R. Audette
“As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.” StillsPlayHappensGamesChanceTeachCasesPlayerEffectsBallsMereProfoundComplicatedExpectedDiplomacySkillfulHaving HopeBilliards Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.” StillsFactsLyingQualityMereQuality Of LifeFacts Of Life Book:RELIGION IN THE MAKING Source: RELIGION IN THE MAKING
“Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.” WritingDoeStillsI CanMadnessMereFinalsSanityTerrificLava Book:The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1931 Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1931
“I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.” StillsAgePastFoundStarsStageBlindMereSuggestionsLimitlessExpanseTwinklingTwinkling Stars Author:Novalis
“Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.” GivingStillsClassNegativeRemainsMereImmensePassive Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.” IfsMenBelieveDoeStillsBornMastersTheaterMereSatisfiedOrganisms Book:The Theater and Its Double Source: The Theater and Its Double