“ Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp. ... Like John Donne, man lies in a close prison, yet it is dear to him. Like Donne's, his thoughts at times overleap the sun and pace beyond the body. If I term humanity a slime mold organism it is because our present environment suggest it. If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there. ... If I dream by contrast of the eventual drift of the star voyagers through the dilated time of the universe, it is because I have seen thistledown off to new worlds and am at heart a voyager who, in this modern time, still yearns for the lost country of his birth. ”
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“ Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spiritsome ability to have a perceptive rather than an exploitive relationship with his fellow creatures. ”
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“ When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond. ”
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“ Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before. ”
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“ Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ”
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“ Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born. ”
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“ Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before. ”
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“ Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before. ”
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“ It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. ”
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“ Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us. ”
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“ The venture into space is meaningless unless it coincides with a certain interior expansion, an ever-growing universe within, to correspond with the far flight of the galaxies our telescopes follow from without. ”
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“ If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it… ”
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“ If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it… ”
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“ Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us. ”
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“ It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. ”
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“ Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before. ”
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“ Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before. ”
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“ Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before. ”
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“ The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know. ”
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“ Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ”
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“ God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. ”
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“ Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born. ”
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“ Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ”
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“ The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know. ”
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