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“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.”
― Sister Carrie
― Sister Carrie
“A hoverfly is held in a sunbeam, an insect in amber.”
― Common Ground
― Common Ground
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings, our ocean depths and fringes are full of luminous beings, creatures lit from the inside. And they have, for many centuries, enchanted us, like glowing missionaries of wonder, emissaries of awe.
Is there anything more beautiful than living light?”
― Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
Is there anything more beautiful than living light?”
― Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
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