Quotes About Growth

History directing evolution.

With practice one could dodge the past almost entirely.

On her the plants seemed not to have had the effect they had had on him. She seemed truly to abominate them, these little emblems of her body, as if viriditas were no more than a cancer that the rock must suffer.

I was born small, as so many things are. A marsupial perhaps. People came to me and reached inside me to pass things to each other. I helped them do that. When I was young I had no blood, and people moving things around inside me had to do it by feel.

Wisdom is always wont to arrive late, and to be a little approximate on first possession. supposed Francis Spufford

People doing dangerous things make mistakes when they're first learning it, and then when they've known it forever.

Jevons Paradox proposes that increases in efficiency in the use of a resource lead to an overall increase in the use of that resource, not a decrease.

Every age had its losses, they said, even youth, which lost first childhood, then youth too. And all first things were vivid, including losses. "Just keep learning," the old woman said.

Cùng t?n t?i, cùng th?nh v??ng

Nothing short of physical handicap has ever made anybody turn over a new leaf.

To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths.

Life teaches me a hundred things every day, and I forget ninety-nine of them, sometimes all hundred of them.

Once you've traded Legos for masturbation, you're not really a boy anymore, are you?

ViaÈ›a este cel mai bun dasc?l .În majoritatea cazurilor ,viaÈ›a nu-È›i vorbeÈ™te ,ci te împinge de la spate .De fiecare dat? e ca È™i cum viaÈ›a È›i-ar spune :TrezeÈ™te-te ,vreau s? înveÈ›i ceva .

No había dos clases de vida, como ella había creído en aquella noche embriagada: la vida en reposo y la vida en movimiento. Sólo existía la vida, que crecía hacia su encuentro con la muerte.

Growth of the soil was something different, a thing to be procured at any cost; the only source, the origin of all. A dull and desolate existence? Nay, least of all. A man had everything; his powers above, his dreams, his loves, his wealth of superstition.

Summer is the time for dreaming, and then you have to stop. But some people go on dreaming all their lives, and cannot change.

Ak, kjærligheten den gjør menneskehjærtet til en sophave, en frodig og uforskammet have hvori står hemmelighetsfuld og fræk sop.

Det begyndte å komme rotne flækker i mit indre, sorte svamper som bredte sig mere og mere.

One learns best as a child.

hadde ikke fulgt med i stedets og menneskenes opsving, nu var det ingen som ikke åt makaroni med han vann og det smakte godter av det og det smakte lækkert ister av det, og de måtte bare såsandt ha hat en duvende makaroniskog her også likesom i utlandet!

God preserve me from growing wise! Yes, I intend to mumble toothlessly to my deathbed bystanders: God preserve me from growing wise!

Every growing thing has received its peculiar impress: the delicately blown breath of the first cold. The stubbles straggle wanly sunwards, and the falling leaves rustle to the earth, with a sound as of errant silkworms.

Værsåartig, her var nu litt om bær, vore bærsorter...