One says to me, “I wonder that you do not lay up money; you love to travel; you might take the cars and go to Fitchburg to-day and see the country.” But I am wiser than that. I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot. I say to my friend, Suppose … Continue reading Grading the Whole Surface of the Planet Henry David Thoreau
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that … Continue reading The World Is a Thing of Utter Inordinate Complexity and Richness Douglas Adams
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Credit: Howard Thurman Posts where this quotation is embedded A Brief History of Knowledge 200,000 years of human history A Knowledge Café Is a Gathering It is not a meeting Actor-network … Continue reading The World Needs Is People Who Have Come Alive Howard Thurman