“But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.” WorldYearsEarthUniverseNaturalMillionsLoversThousandTwentiesMilesSixtyOffenseExtinctionFractionsMost AmazingCanyonsLandmarksAsteroidsGrand CanyonMeteorsCraters Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often seeks to satisfy his perceived and ultimately false psychological needs, such as his need for self-display, luxuries and the like. Twenty percent of humanity consumes eighty percent of the world's wealth and is accountable for an equal percentage of the world's ecological catastrophes.” MenWorldNeedsSelfHumanityNaturalWealthEqualSurvivalPercentTwentiesEnvironmentalPsychologicalLuxuryStabilityDisplayCatastropheEightyPercentagesStewardshipNatural WorldEcologicalPsychological Needs Author:Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
“I never experienced anything in my natural state that was as shocking as salvia divinorum`s effects. The condensed extract is murder. I'd smoked some plain leaf and experienced a very alien, very physical sensation, like wheels grinding against each other all over my body. Odd, not pleasant, but not overwhelming. Someone sent me some extract, and I took a big lungful, started counting, and before I reached twenty I was suddenly and without preamble in a completely altered state.” StatesBodyBigsNaturalEffectsMurderTwentiesAliensOddPleasantWheelsSensationsOverwhelmingLeafsShockingCountingAlteredAltered StatesPreamble Author:Jim Woodring
“No great player blundered oftener than I done. I was champion of the world for twenty-eight years because I was twenty years ahead of my time. I played on certain principles, which neither Zukertort nor anyone else of his time understood. The players of today, such as Lasker, Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Schlechter and others have adopted my principles, and as is only natural, they have improved upon what I began, and that is the whole secret of the matter.” WorldYearsMatterDoneWholeTodayCertainNaturalSecretPrinciplesPlayerUnderstoodTwentiesEightChampionMy TimeAdopted Author:Wilhelm Steinitz
“I love to watch my daughter. At twenty-two months, that little soul is developing at a rate I will never understand. She's kind of taught me that growth and expansion are a person's natural state and inclination.” KindLittlesPersonsTwoSoulStatesGrowthNaturalWatchesTaughtMonthsDaughterTwentiesRateDevelopingMy DaughterExpansionInclinationTwo MonthsTwenty Two Author:Daniel Gillies
“Ask people who are close to the natural world: farmers, people who work the land or in some way use the land for their livelihoods. They will tell you what they are seeing isn't so good. They will tell you the changes they have seen in the past twenty years are remarkable in one way or another and unlike anything they had seen before that.” PeopleWorldWayYearsUsePastAsksNaturalSeeingLandTwentiesOne WayRemarkableFarmersNatural WorldLivelihood Author:Mark Ruffalo
“I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's hands . . . They admit that the inventors of writing imitated the twenty-five natural symbols, but they maintain that this application is accidental and that books in themselves mean nothing. This opinion - we shall see - is not altogether false.” KnowsWritingMeanBookDreamHandsNaturalLinesOpinionFiveTwentiesSeekingSymbolsVainCompareRegionsCustomsApplicationLibrarianInventorChaoticTwenty FiveSuperstitious Book:Ficciones Source: Ficciones
“A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination.” MenStatesHoursNaturalFourHorseTwentiesSevenNineCombinationWarmthCowsOrgansCarbonSeventiesAcidCharcoalFree StateRespiration Book:Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology Source: Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology