Quote:- Sweetly the summer air came up to the tumulus, the grass sighed softly, the butterflies went by, sometimes alighting on the green dome. Two thousand years! Summer after summer the blue butterflies had visited the mound, the thyme had flowered, the wind sighed in the grass. The azure morning had spread its arms over the low tomb; and full glowing noon burned on it; the purple of sunset rosied the sward. Stars, ruddy in the vapour of the southern horizon, beamed at midnight through the mystic summer night, which is dusky and yet full of light. White mists swept up and hid it; dews rested on the turf; tender harebells drooped; the wings of the finches fanned the air—finches whose colours faded from the wings how many centuries ago! Brown autumn dwelt in the woods beneath; the rime of winter whitened the beech clump on the ridge; again the buds came on the wind-blown hawthorn bushes, and in the evening the broad constellation of Orion covered the east. Two thousand times! Two thousand times the woods grew green, and ring-doves built their nests. Day and night for two thousand years—light and shadow sweeping over the mound—two thousand years of labour by day and slumber by night. Mystery gleaming in the stars, pouring down in the sunshine, speaking in the night, the wonder of the sun and of far space, for twenty centuries round about this low and green-grown dome. Yet all that mystery and wonder is as nothing to the Thought that lies therein, to the spirit that I feel so close.
The Story of My Heart: As Rediscovered by Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams
Author:- Richard Jefferies
Category:- time
Quote:- Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one.
Author:- Charles Sherrington
Category:- science
Quote:- Swimming against a river is like fighting against the emotions from passing through you; allow your body to flow with the river.
If Stars Could Speak
Author:- Natalia Beshqoy
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Swirling soft pinks, in silky drinks.Cotton candy sky and precious winks.
Bubbly By The Sea
Author:- B.K. Sweeting
Category:- best
Quote:- Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea, and the yellow-fever mosquito. Civilizations have retreated from the plasmodium of malaria, and armies have crumbled into rabbles under the onslaught of cholera spirilla, or of dysentery and typhoid bacilli. Huge areas have bee devastated by the trypanosome that travels on the wings of the tsetse fly, and generations have been harassed by the syphilis of a courtier. War and conquest and that herd existence which is an accompaniment of what we call civilization have merely set the stage for these more powerful agents of human tragedy.
Rats, Lice and History
Author:- Hans Zinsser
Category:- science
Quote:- Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection
Author:- Herman Weyl
Category:- science
Quote:- System knowledge alone tends to favor technocratic visions; transformation knowledge by itself may encourage blind activism; orientation knowledge without system and transformation knowledge is idle. But even the combination of these types of knowledge will be useless as long as they are not implemented within a suitable knowledge economy, comprising research, education, public discourse, and political action.Much of the needed knowledge is unavailable - either because it is inaccessible, suppressed, or unimplemented, or because it does not yet exist or has been lost. Even in the face of global challenges, there will not be just one way into the future, but various modes of bringing together the richness and diversity of human experiences. New form of knowledge, as well as new forms of individual and social life ready to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene (including new strategies for knowledge production and energy provision, for dealing with social justice and the flow of materials, for health care en traffic, etc) will not simply follow from a radical 'paradigm shift'. They will rather result from exploration processes that may eventually form a matrix. thus giving birth to new insights and forms of life that we could not have anticipated.
The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene
Author:- Jürgen Renn
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Systems of thought, and their antitheses as well, are merely codifications of what we think we know. When we begin to abandon them, we open ourselves to the immensity of the universe, and therefore also to immense possibilities, including the possibility of the impossible.
Quichotte
Author:- Salman Rushdie
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- T is not too late to seek a newer world.Push off, and sitting well in order smiteThe sounding furrows; for my purpose holdsTo sail beyond the sunset, and the bathsOf all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’We are not now that strength which in old daysMov’d earth and heaven, that which we are, we are:One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Ulysses
Author:- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Category:- poetry,hope
Quote:- Tactile navigation - the kinaesthetic moving/touching of the body - is the total embodied awareness of a body in an environment. Knowledge is made corporeal with the sense of touch replacing that of sight as the primary mode of gathering data
Author:- Neil Lewis
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Taggle, meanwhile, made himself popular, killing rats and bringing a rabbit into camp every evening, preening in the praise - silently, thank god, though at night, he recounted choice bits to Kate: "Rye Baro says I am a princeling; he split the leg bone for me so that I could eat the marrow. They love me. And I'm sure they'll keep you, too."Mira, she thought, and treasured it each time she heard it, They must keep me. Family.
Plain Kate
Author:- Erin Bow
Category:- hope
Quote:- Tak ada brahmana angkuh. Mereka hanya lebih mengerti, lebih tahu daripada orang yang menganggap pengetahuan dan ilmu sebagai keangkuhan.
Arok Dedes
Author:- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Tak ada gunanya mengotot mempertahankan pendapat karena ingin dianggap paling benar. Karena sesuatu yang kita anggap benar, tetaplah benar, meski tidak didengungkan, tidak divalidasi banyak orang. Benar hanyalah sesuatu yang terasa pas di hati, seperti pakaian, tidak longgar atau sempit, dan itu tentunya bisa berbeda-beda untuk tiap orang.
Perjalanan Mimpi
Author:- Anastasia Ervina
Category:- Life
Quote:- Tak ada makhluk mana pun bisa mengalahkan usia tua, sebab pada akhirnya dia mengalahkan kita semua, membuat kita makin lemah dan akhirnya menutup mata selamanya.
Norse Mythology
Author:- Neil Gaiman
Category:- Life
Quote:- Tak ada mimpi yang sempurna di dunia yang tak sempurna ini
Jika Kita Tak Pernah Jadi Apa-Apa
Author:- Alvi Syahrin
Category:- motivational