"Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically."

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Source : Song: Colors Of The Wind

Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Stars Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Crucible Quotes

“Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.”
“Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that -- the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.”

Source : Baroness Orczy (2012). “I Will Repay”, p.56, House of Stratus
“Absent the rapid mobilization of climate advocates at every level - and the pooling of all their energy, creativity, and resources into a coordinated, no-holds-barred campaign - we will soon be crossing the threshold into climate hell.”
“Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.”
“Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.”
“Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I.”
“Said the tiger to the lily, Said the viper to the rose, Let us marry so our children May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower With the attar in the asp We could institute a slaughter That would make a planet gasp.”

Source : Nathalia Crane (1928). “Venus Invisible: And Other Poems”
“Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.”

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