Mark Schofer

“The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that. Bad parents make things hard and painful for their children and then say it was to help them grow. Growing and living are hard enough already; children do not need things to be harder.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

“This dream the world is having about itself
includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail,
a groove in the grass my father showed us all
one day while meadowlarks were trying to tell
something better about to happen.”
― William Stafford, The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

“Humans aren't built to sit all day. Nor are we built for the kinds of repetitive, small movements that so much of today's specialized work demands. Our bodies crave big, varied movements that originate at the core of our body.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness