Collectiveness Culture Quotes & Sayings

Dickens knew there were vast reserves of methane hydrate trapped frozen in sea-beds all around the world and wondered what would happen if a lot of that frozen methane on the sea floor had melted from a solid into a gas, and bubbled up from the ocean's depths? Would it be enough to account for the "signature" of carbon-12 that geologists were finding in the rocks associated with the Permian Mass Extinction? So he went back to the lab and melted frozen methane in water warm enough. The results were dramatic. The gas not only dissolved into the water, but it also rose up out of the water and into the air. Dickens published a paper in 1999 suggesting that a 5 degree Celsius increase in ocean temperatures would have been adequate to melt enough methane hydrate crystals to create the Permian carbon-12 signature. And such a massive release of methane, itself a greenhouse gas vastly more potent than CO2, would also trigger a catastrophic, swift warming of the planet. — Thom Hartmann

Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery. — Shunryu Suzuki

The world would become better off
If people tried to become better.
And people would become better
If they stopped trying to become better off. — Peter Maurin

Deviance is in the eye of the beholder — Anonymous

It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind. — Sinclair Lewis

I don't know if it is important to tell you all this, but at the time, it felt like a "breakthrough". — Stephen Chbosky

I'm just sick of food going in the garbage. — Tom Douglas

I knew that I was loved. And that's such an important thing. And, of course, at such an early age, you take it for granted. Of course your parents love you. Of course Mrs. Hubert across the street loves you and your godmother loves you and your grandparents love you. — Jessye Norman

I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking. — Emma Donoghue

Stop worrying about what everyone else thinks. Start living for you and what makes you happy, because that's what everyone else is gonna do. — Carl Weber

I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me. — Philippe Petit