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He remembered their godswood; the tall sentinels armored in their grey-green needles, the great oaks, the hawthorn and ash and soldier pines, and at the center the heart tree standing like some pale giant frozen in time. He could almost smell the place, earthy and brooding, the smell of centuries, and he remembered how dark the wood had been even by day. That wood was Winterfell. It was the north.

The trees spoke of patience of the slow but continuous way old and young share and endure and keep on.

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give that to them? Then be not eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise can not see all the ends.

..Deep down, in our own ways, we both knew that we’d picked up something miraculous happening between the two tree species. Something otherworldly. Like intercepting a covert conversation over the airwaves that could change the course of history

The Kichwa of Sarayaku, Ecuador, see their forest as "the most exalted expression of life itself".

The stars shone through the window and the silence of the heavens seemed to be round him.

REM sleep is what stands between rationality and insanity.

.. the Monty Hall paradox is just like an optical illusion or a magic trick: it uses our own cognitive machinery to deceive us.

Phrased differently, and perhaps more simply, wakefulness is low-level brain damage, while sleep is neurological sanitation.

"What was silently missing was Darwin, the chutes, and all the 'survival of the fittest'. ... In supreme irony, what had started out as an attempt to mathematize the framework of 'the Origin of Species' ended with the essence of that great work being discarded as unnecessary!"

ದುಡ್ಡು ನಮ್ಮನ್ನೇ ಆಡಿಸುತ್ತದೆ ಅನ್ನುವ ಮಾತು ಸುಳ್ಳಲ್ಲ. ಅದಕ್ಕೂ ಒಂದು ಸ್ಪಭಾವ, ಶಕ್ತಿ ಇರುತ್ತದೆಯೋ ಏನೋ. ಕಡಿಮೆ ಇದ್ದಾಗ ಅದು ನಮ್ಮ ಅಳವಿನಲ್ಲಿದ್ದು ಹೆಚ್ಚಾದಾಗ ಅದರ ಬಲ ಬೆಳೆದು ನಮ್ಮನ್ನೇ ಆಕ್ರಮಿಸತೊಡಗುತ್ತದೆಯೋ ಏನೋ.

ದುಡ್ಡು ನಮ್ಮನ್ನೇ ಆಡಿಸುತ್ತದೆ ಅನ್ನುವ ಮಾತು ಸುಳ್ಳಲ್ಲ. ಅದಕ್ಕೂ ಒಂದು ಸ್ಪಭಾವ, ಶಕ್ತಿ ಇರುತ್ತದೆಯೋ ಏನೋ. ಕಡಿಮೆ ಇದ್ದಾಗ ಅದು ನಮ್ಮ ಅಳವಿನಲ್ಲಿದ್ದು ಹೆಚ್ಚಾದಾಗ ಅದರ ಬಲ ಬೆಳೆದು ನಮ್ಮನ್ನೇ ಆಕ್ರಮಿಸತೊಡಗುತ್ತದೆಯೋ ಏನೋ.

You and the tree in your backyard come from a common ancestor. A billion and a half years ago, the two of you parted ways. But even now, after an immense journey in separate directions, that tree and you still share a quarter of your genes…

Come on, Sugar, Vote for Maple
Up in Canada it's a staple

There is nothing there. Nothing inside Josie that's beyond the Klaras of this world to continue.

Yet laissez-faire without rights is a contradiction in terms; the laissez-faire position is based on and derived from man’s rights, and can endure only when rights are held inviolable. Now, in an age of increasing awareness of the environment, this old contradiction is coming back to haunt capitalism.

The vital fact about air pollution is that the polluter sends unwanted and unbidden pollutants from smoke to nuclear radiation to sulphur oxides through the air and into the lungs of innocent victims as well as onto their material property. All such emanations which injure person or property constitute aggression against the private property of the victims.

Many persons who have not studied mathematics confuse it with arithmetic and consider it a dry and arid science. Actually, however, this science requires great fantasy.
—Sophia Kovalevsky