Precambrian Life Quotes & Sayings

Individual humans are not super, but the organism of which we are all tiny cellular parts is most certainly that. The life-form that's so big we forget it's there, that turns minerals on its planet into tools to touch the infinite black gap between stars or probe the obliterating pressures at the bottom of the oceans. We are already part of a superbeing, a monster, a god, a living process that is so all encompassing that it is to an individual life what water is to a fish. We are cells in the body of a three-billion-year-old life-form whose roots are in the Precambrian oceans and whose genetic wiring extends through the living structures of everything on the planet, connecting everything that has ever lived in one immense nervous system. — Grant Morrison

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. — William Stanley Jevons

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. — George Orwell

On this scale, according to John McPhee in Basin and Range, the distance from the fingertips of one hand to the wrist of the other is Precambrian. All of complex life is in one hand, and in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history. — Bill Bryson

To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does not want to be so weak as to listen occasionally to other talk. No, it insists on listening only to itself, on having dealings only with itself; it closes itself up within itself, indeed, locks itself inside one more inclosure, and protects itself against every attack or pursuit by the good by despairing over sin. — Soren Kierkegaard

The more conscious we become the more consciously we choose that which we set in motion to create. — Caroline Myss

Nowadays, and speaking very generally, geological time is divided first into four great chunks known as eras: Precambrian, Palaeozoic (from the Greek meaning "old life"), Mesozoic ("middle life") and Cenozoic ("recent life"). These four eras are further divided into anywhere from a dozen to twenty subgroups, — Bill Bryson

Runnin's not a bad thing, sir, so long as you're runnin' towards somethin' good. — Jonathan Auxier

The value of time is only equal to the value of life. — Sunday Adelaja

By and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them — Will Durant

Don't ask so many questions. You always ask so many questions. Don't do that. Just...accept things.

...Don't ask questions and don't look back. Believe me you'll be much more content. — Elizabeth Berg