“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
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“Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things." We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial processes can produce Kevlar, it takes a temperature of thousands of degrees to do it, and the fiber is pulled through sulfuric acid. In contrast, a spider makes its silk - which per gram is several times stronger than steel - at room temperature in water.”
― Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
― Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”
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“Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.”
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