#on

In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life - the plants and animals that inhabit the earth - has evolved merely to regulate the chemistry of the biosphere. Humans are insignificant participants, far less important to the life cycle than termites. Even the imbalance that we have created by adding massive quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere may be brought back to acceptable levels by other organisms functioning in their capacity to correct excesses. ↗

— David Easton

#life

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse. ↗

— Kurt Eisner

#deserves #fears #greatest #national #people

High in the hazy sky, the snowfkakes looked tiny and all alike, but as they drifted past the narrow window of the sewing room, all were unique - long or round or triangular - as if they'd borrowed their shapes from the clouds they'd come from. ↗

— Ursula Hegi

#life-in-small-german-town #rise-of-nazis #life

When you feel like you messed up your life, it is time to go back to the drawing board and redesign it. ↗

— Lolalola

#life

You know your own worst enemy, when you throw yourself curve balls. ↗

— Lolalola

#life

I make sacrifices in reward of trinkets for my gilded cage. ↗

— Solange nicole

#money #poetic #society #solange #life

I can’t shop for more clothes, guys. I’m a role model to 1.3 million girls—I have to prove to them that there’s more to life than clothes. ↗