Amy Sterling

“there is much more happiness to be found in the world than dim eyes can see, if one calculates correctly and does not forget all those moments of ease which are so plentiful in every day of every human life,”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits

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

“mistook stars reflected in a pond at night for those in the sky.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Time of Contempt

“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