"Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead and discarded, as though intuitively aware that there is nothing new under the sun. Throughout the physical world, from the cosmic to the subatomic, the same refrain resounds. Conservation: it's not just a good idea, it's the law."

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Source : Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Natalie Angier

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“I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.”
“Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.”
“I didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child”

Source : Kathleen Flinn (2008). “The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School”, p.14, Penguin
“A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna”
“The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.”

Source : FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Jan 04, 2015
“It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.”
“Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.”

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