"Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical parts share information, and it responds with individualized defenses, but it isn't conscious and it has no memory. The host of that party didn't decree that everyone would gather in the kitchen, but it happened anyway. Emergence means we sometimes act in concert for better or worse."

-- Steven Johnson

#Memories Quotes #Party Quotes #Mean Quotes

“We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.”
“I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.”
“The small and simple things you choose to do today will be magnified into great and glorious blessings tomorrow.”
“Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.”
“I think the idea that a society has to be responsible for all of its citizens, those who do well and those who do not, is really a precondition of a good society.”

Source : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org
“I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn.”

Source : William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: The book of a naturalist”
“And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.”

Source : "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.
“Serving others prepares you to lead others.”

Source : Jim George (2008). “The Bare Bones Bible® Handbook for Teens: Getting to Know Every Book in the Bible”, p.35, Harvest House Publishers

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