Where is the wisdom we have lost in
knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -T.S. Eliot, to which Thomas Huxley may
have replied, To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window
through which the infinite may be seen.
The driest place on Earth is not the Sahara but Antarctica … One section hasn’t had ice, rain or snow for two million years.
It is in the moral
nature of man,
where the sublime is, and the resources of astonishment are. - Emerson
The
The Democratic Republic of the Congo in west-central Africa is larger than all of Western Europe .
There are more cell phones in Africa than there are people
in all North America and they are made in China
Of the ten most poison snakes in the world eight of them are
in Australia
Lines I wish I had written to Peggy: If I were a giraffe, I would love you in silence, gazing down at you
from over the wire fencing, as melancholy as a dockyard crane, I would love you
with the awkward love of the very tall, and, thoughtfully chewing a leaf as if
it were gum, ………, I would slowly lower my neck on the pulleys of my tendons in
order, tenderly, tremulously, to nuzzle your breasts with my head. -Lobo
Antunes
Over the past century Democrats have controlled the House
of Representatives 70 of those years. My guess is that the GOP gerrymandered the
districts for the other 30%.
Coyotes are the only animal in North
America which have proliferated since Europeans came over. Leave it to those tricksters. They
alone know whose woods these are.
Joy in spite of everything is yanking the bell rope despite physical affliction — it has become my Quasi Motto. - Tom Robbins
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