984 – “Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.”

-Annie Besant

979 – David W Orr on what Earth needs

“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing to join the struggle to make the world habitable and humane and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture is the set.”

-David W Orr

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974 – “We open our eyes and think we’re seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear – and really just in the last few centuries – is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 billionth of the information that’s riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us. Even though we accept the reality that’s presented to us, we’re really only seeing a little window of what’s happening.”

-David Eagleman

965 – “Climb mountains not so the world can see, but so you can see the world.”

-anonymous

951 – “Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I loo forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.”

-Hayao Miyazaki [Attributed]

946 – 「命 は 闇 の 中 の またたく 光だ。」

“Inochi wa yami no naka no matataku hikarida.”

“Life is a winking light in the darkness.”

-Nausicaä in Hayao Miyazaki’s manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

912 – “The world can be seen as only connections, nothing else. We think of a dictionary as the repository of meaning, but it defines words only in terms of other words. I liked the idea that a piece of information is really defined only by what it’s related to, and how it’s related. There really is little else to meaning. The structure is everything.”

-Tim Berners-Lee

911 – “When you’re finally up at the Moon looking back on Earth, all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you’re going to get a concepts that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can’t we learn to live together like decent people?”

-Frank Borman [Unreliable Source]

898 – “Eu posso escolher ser uma vítima do mundo ou um aventureiro em busca de tesouros. É tudo uma questão de como eu vejo a minha vida.”

“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.”

-Paulo Coelho

897 – First Stanza of William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence.”

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

-William Blake