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Quote:- We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.
Author:- William Wilberforce
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- We have increased our population to the level of 7 billion and beyond. We are well on our way toward 9 billion before our growth trend is likely to flatten. We live at high densities in many cities. We have penetrated, and we continue to penetrate, the last great forests and other wild ecosystems of the planet, disrupting the physical structures and the ecological communities of such places. We cut our way through the Congo. We cut our way through the Amazon. We cut our way through Borneo. We cut our way through Madagascar. We cut our way through New Guinea and northeastern Australia. We shake the trees, figuratively and literally, and things fall out. We kill and butcher and eat many of the wild animals found there. We settle in those places, creating villages, work camps, towns, extractive industries, new cities. We bring in our domesticated animals, replacing the wild herbivores with livestock. We multiply our livestock as we've multiplied ourselves, operating huge factory-scale operations involving thousands of cattle, pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep, and goats, not to mention hundreds of bamboo rats and palm civets, all confined en masse within pens and corrals, under conditions that allow those domestics and semidomestics to acquire infectious pathogens from external sources (such as bats roosting over the pig pens), to share those infections with one another, and to provide abundant opportunities for the pathogens to evolve new forms, some of which are capable of infecting a human as well as a cow or a duck. We treat many of those stock animals with prophylactic doses of antibiotics and other drugs, intended not to cure them but to foster their weight gain and maintain their health just sufficiently for profitable sale and slaughter, and in doing that we encourage the evolution of resistant bacteria. We export and import livestock across great distances and at high speeds. We export and import other live animals, especially primates, for medical research. We export and import wild animals as exotic pets. We export and import animal skins, contraband bushmeat, and plants, some of which carry secret microbial passengers. We travel, moving between cities and continents even more quickly than our transported livestock. We stay in hotels where strangers sneeze and vomit. We eat in restaurants where the cook may have butchered a porcupine before working on our scallops. We visit monkey temples in Asia, live markets in India, picturesque villages in South America, dusty archeological sites in New Mexico, dairy towns in the Netherlands, bat caves in East Africa, racetracks in Australia – breathing the air, feeding the animals, touching things, shaking hands with the friendly locals – and then we jump on our planes and fly home. We get bitten by mosquitoes and ticks. We alter the global climate with our carbon emissions, which may in turn alter the latitudinal ranges within which those mosquitoes and ticks live. We provide an irresistible opportunity for enterprising microbes by the ubiquity and abundance of our human bodies.Everything I’ve just mentioned is encompassed within this rubric: the ecology and evolutionary biology of zoonotic diseases. Ecological circumstance provides opportunity for spillover. Evolution seizes opportunity, explores possibilities, and helps convert spillovers to pandemics.
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Author:- David Quammen
Category:- science
Quote:- We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating. Feeling that there must be more behind, we return to our starting point in human consciousness - the one centre where more might become known. There we find other stirrings, other revelations than those conditioned by the world of symbols... Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism. Surely then that mental and spiritual nature of ourselves, known in our minds by an intimate contact transcending the methods of physics, supplies just that... which science is admittedly unable to give.
Science And The Unseen World
Author:- Arthur Stanley Eddington
Category:- science
Quote:- We have lost our way, gone away from each other, thinking we’ll never be found again. But we were always deceiving ourselves because even though we were miles apart, we were never really apart. We carried each other like the stars in the night sky, we unburdened our souls with each other’s laughs our homes stood beneath the strings of our pulsing red hearts. We were never lost we were always found.
Author:- awakeningthewriter
Category:- Love
Quote:- We have many instincts that used to be useful thousands of years ago, but we live in a very different world now.
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Author:- Hans Rosling
Category:- science
Quote:- We have mostly forgotten how easy it is just to live and experience the totality of life. However, people are awakening to this fact more than ever before in our history. There is a shift occurring worldwide. Thus, this transformation has the potential to blossom into an era of conscious evolution for our species.
Love Will Show You the Way: Choosing the Path of Least Resistance
Author:- Steve Leasock
Category:- Love
Quote:- We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the future. Perhaps we got this from our parents. Carried away by our worries, we're unable to live fully and happily in the present. Deep down, we believe we can't really be happy just yet—that we still have a few more boxes to be checked off before we can really enjoy life. We speculate, dream, strategize, and plan for these "conditions of happiness" we want to have in the future; and we continually chase after that future, even while we sleep. We may have fears about the future because we don't know how it's going to turn out, and these worries and anxieties keep us from enjoying being here now.
Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives
Author:- Thich Nhat Hanh
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- We have no time, we have no space, we are questions that love answers, but the veil of truth don't lift.In the edge of abyss, people really meet themselves, when they're staring at nothingness, and then they understand that we are, birds of passage.
An Ocean of Souls: Beyond the heaven
Author:- alexis karpouzos
Category:- best
Quote:- We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval "ur-matter," atoms formed billions of years ago that have for a brief while been gathered into collections that think they are us.
The Void
Author:- Frank Close
Category:- science
Quote:- We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
Author:- Woodrow Wilson
Category:- knowledge,science
Quote:- We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
Author:- Mark Twain
Category:- science
Quote:- We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Author:- George Orwell
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- We have seen countless sunrises, but their beauty never ceases to amaze us.
Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
Author:- Shree Shambav
Category:- motivational
Quote:- We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
Wild Dreams of a New Beginning
Author:- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category:- poetry
Quote:- We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.
Swann's Way
Author:- Marcel Proust
Category:- hope
Quote:- We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism--something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
The Selfish Gene
Author:- Richard Dawkins
Category:- science
Quote:- We have the technology right now to effectively eradicate Huntington's disease from the planet, along with many other genetic disorders. But the messy realities of human existence--of economics, emotions, politics, and the rest--override the technological possibilities.
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Author:- Carl Zimmer
Category:- science