"Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program."

“Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.”

Source : "The Art of the Commonplace". Book by Wendell Berry, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

“You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.”

“True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley (Aphorism No. 10), 1930.

“There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.”

“Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be. Man does not suddenly become aware or infused with wonder; it is something we are born with.”

Source : Sigurd F Olson (2012). “Reflections from the North Country”, p.90, Knopf

“In the APS (American Physical Society) it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible? The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period.'”

“I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.”

“There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.”