And yet, the stewards flounder through and founder into composite conundrums and squirrel away in the empty shells of selfish reason. Pride for breakfast while suppers beckon the eggs.
Reminds me of something a physicist saidâthough I canât recall their name. We live on this small blue dot, orbiting a star, positioned so precisely that if it were just 10% closer or farther, weâd either burn or freeze. That star is one of billions in our galaxy, which itself is one of billions in the universe. The profound contradiction in our condition: we are physically insignificant in scale, yet this may be the only planet where matter has become conscious of itself (or even where there is life). Atoms, aware they are atoms. The importance of preserving this world is galactic, universal.
And yet, the stewards flounder through and founder into composite conundrums and squirrel away in the empty shells of selfish reason. Pride for breakfast while suppers beckon the eggs.
âTo see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.â
â William Blake
Reminds me of something a physicist saidâthough I canât recall their name. We live on this small blue dot, orbiting a star, positioned so precisely that if it were just 10% closer or farther, weâd either burn or freeze. That star is one of billions in our galaxy, which itself is one of billions in the universe. The profound contradiction in our condition: we are physically insignificant in scale, yet this may be the only planet where matter has become conscious of itself (or even where there is life). Atoms, aware they are atoms. The importance of preserving this world is galactic, universal.
âTo see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.â
â William Blake
Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.
"I fear that one day man will travel to distant planets. And then heâll take his lethal mixture of vice, greed, violence and ignorance to those planets tooâturning them barren and ravaged as we are already doing with Earth." â Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)
