Jim

“Live with your century, but do not be its creature.”
― Friedrich Schiller

“There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet. A mere teaspoonful contains many miles of fungal filaments. All these work the soil, transform it, and make it so valuable for the trees.”
― Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

“Mut ohne Klugheit ist Unfug, und Klugheit ohne Mut ist Quatsch!”
― Erich Kästner

“A person is not religious solely when he worships a divinity, but when he puts all the resources of his mind, the complete submission of his will, and the whole-souled ardour of fanaticism at the service of a cause or an individual who becomes the goal and guide of his thoughts and actions.”
― Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind