"Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in the future, when the beams would need replacing. Did the carpenters plant new trees to replace the beams again a few hundred years from now?"

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Source : "WIRED SCENARIOS: - The Millennium Clock Danny Hillis". www.wired.com. December 06, 1995.

Danny Hillis

#Years Quotes #Tree Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“An enriched capacity for rejoicing is an expanded capacity for worship.”
“I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.”
“The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.”
“As I got older, my voice got better.”
“Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.”
“How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap?”

Source : Reggie McNeal (2009). “The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons
“You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.”
“The mailman doesn't deliver on Sundays.”

Source : "No, YOU'RE Ugly: The Best Moments In Trash Talking" by Corey Nachman, www.businessinsider.com. June 2, 2011.

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