Amy Sterling

“People cannot see their reflections in running water, but only in still water.”
― Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings

“The earth’s surface measures about 200 million square miles, of which 60 million is land. As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of farmers, along with their plants and animals, clustered together in an area of just 4.25 million square miles – 2 per cent of the planet’s surface.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“That man claims our respect, who commands over the minds of the rest of the world by the force of truth, not those who enslave their fellow creatures; he who is acquainted with the universe, not they who deface it.”
― Voltaire, Letters Concerning the English Nation

“adventurers and circumnavigators of that inner world which is called “human being,”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits