A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.
They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.
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Scott OConnor
Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the profoundest ignorance of history could prevent one from recognizing this....
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David Bentley Hart
See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,
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Neal Stephenson
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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Leo Tolstoy
Deep in the meadow, under the willowa bed of grass, a soft green pillow lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyesand when again they open, the sun will rise. Hear it's safe, here it's warm hear the daisies guard you from every harm...
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Suzanne Collins
More Quotes By Philip Pullman
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.. Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams...
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
This time it is real – all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
