People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once. But can you really forbid a man from harboring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?
Nature, considered rationally, that is to say, submitted to the process of thought, is a unity in diversity of phenomena; a harmony, blending together all created things, however dissimilar in form and attributes; one great whole animated by the breath of life.
Everything is interaction and reciprocal.
Lewis Thomas·1974Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive.
Marcus Aurelius·175 ADDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
John Muir·1872The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love.
