Adam Sher

“We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.”
― James Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“And therefore the Christian, who is subject only to the inner divine law, not only cannot carry out the enactments of the external law, when they are not in agreement with the divine law of love which he acknowledges (as is usually the case with state obligations), he cannot even recognize the duty of obedience to anyone or anything whatever, he cannot recognize the duty of what is called allegiance.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

“What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?”
― Jeremy Narby, The Cosmic Serpent, DNA and the Origins of Knowledge