Jorge Rascoe

“Having forgotten how insanely chaotic the Central Bazaar in the Merchant Sector can get, he is instantly reminded just how exciting it is.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

“I have to remember, too, that sex is one of those areas—like religion and politics—where otherwise decent and rational people may have intense, irrational feelings.”
― Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life

“Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is — or should be — the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all — perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows."

Essay on the Biological Sciences, in: Good Reading (1958)”
― Rachel Carson

“It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. Since”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk To Freedom