#chan

See,' said (Liberty Hyde) Bailey, 'how the leaves of this small plant stand forth extended to bathe themselves in the light. ... THese leaves will die. They will rot. They will disappear into the universal mold. The energy that is in them will be released to reappear, the ions to act again, perhaps in the corn on the plain, perhaps in the body of a bird. The atoms and the ions remain or resurrect; the forms change and flux. We see the forms and mourn the change. We think all is lost; yet nothing is lost. The harmony of life is never ending.' The economy of nature provides that nothing be lost. ↗

— Russell Lord

#anthropology #archaeology #gaia-hypothesis #history #change

I know you better then anyone. You’re practically my son, and I think that it’s the fact that you don’t want to see her leave. You are afraid of change.” He paused; he was right. “You are afraid that she will change. ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#distance #fear #love #change

[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand. ↗

— Anita Diamant

#beauty #day-after-night #meaninglessness-of-life #random-chance #randomness

Adapting doesn't mean changing yourself...... ↗

— Adil Adam Memon

#change

But you're so busy changing the world Just one smile can change all of mine ↗

— Jack Johnson

#couples #love #smile #song #business

Riiiight,” you interrupt, “I was just checking to make sure that what me and my friend do was actually none of your goddamned business… ↗

— Hosho McCreesh

#msm #business

Awareness is a gentle beauty. It hovers around me like a fairy, pointing to those things I would miss if I didn't look past the obvious and on the other side of busy. ↗

— Jeanne McElvaney

#change-your-life #gotospirit-com #jeanne-mcelvaney #life-purpose #old-maggie-s-spirit-whispers

Just knowing you exist changed the world for me. ↗

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

#change

I was so busy enjoying the change in you, I didn't notice it in myself. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#business

One simple answer is that there has been a massive rise in the incidence of sanctimony and smugness among the successful that has nothing to do with any change in the underlying reality. Rather, it has been stimulated by politicians who have realized that it is possible to win power by recruiting the most economically successful forty per cent or so of the population in a crusade to roll back the gains made by their fellow citizens in the previous forty years. And how better to rationalize this than to tell people that they deserve the incomes that the market generates? ↗

— Brian M. Barry

#economics #nulabor #politics #reaganism #thatcher