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- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories,…
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes…
- We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or…
- After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
- Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that…
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in…
- Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.
- Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It…
- A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us…
- Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes…
- If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do…
- I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.
- Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of…
- What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it…
- There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then…
- When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so…
- Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors.…
- Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite
- I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward…
- We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray