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Our brains cannot see more than 20 events per second – falcons see 70–80; they are unable to recognize the 25-pictures-per-second moving image on a television screen. Seeing things closer together in time than we do allows them to stretch ...more
Kerry Pickens
Our brains cannot see more than 20 events per second – falcons see 70–80; they are unable to recognize the 25-pictures-per-second moving image on a television screen. Seeing things closer together in time than we do allows them to stretch out a foot at full speed to grab a bird or a dragonfly from the air.
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“The greatest happiness possible to a man ... is to become civilized, to know the pageant of the past, to love the beautiful, to have just ideas of values and proportions, and then retaining his animal spirits and appetites, to live in a wilderness, - J. Frank Dobie”
Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind - REVISED EDITION

“She was one of those people who was stingy without motive or reason even when they gain nothing from it. - Willa Cather”
Benjamin Taylor, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather

Matthew Edward Hall
“heal the roots, to see the tree grow vibrant.”
Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

George Prochnik
“From the beginning, Scholem made clear that Kabbalah is a writer's mysticism.”
George Prochnik, Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem

Matthew Edward Hall
“The tree of which we are branches on, makes choices yesterday, by the choices we make today.”
Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

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