"We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone."

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Source : Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA

Ursula Goodenough

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“To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,”
“I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night.”
“Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth.”

Source : "A history of Christian missions during the Middle Ages". Book by George Frederick Maclear, p. 365, 1863.
“The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.”

Source : Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Ellen Frothingham (2013). “Laocoon: An Essay upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry”, p.17, Courier Corporation
“Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed?”

Source : Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 511, 2005.
“Exercise is like meditation for me, and I'm giving myself that time... I can't live without it now.”
“I love Cher Lloyd's music. I didn't actually hear her music as I was creating my own, but it's cool that we have styles that are considered to be similar.”
“When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine...Vengeance is our own pleasure of seeing someone who hurt us getting it back and then some. Justice, on the other hand, is secure when someone pays a fair penalty for wronging another even if the injured person takes no pleasure in the transaction. Vengeance is personal satisfaction. Justice is moral accounting...Human forgiveness does not do away with human justice.”

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