Quote for Today: Mary Hunter Austin
There are many areas in the desert where drinkable water lies within a few feet of the surface, indicated by the mesquite and the bunch grass ( Sporobolus airoides ). …
Quote for Today: Edwin Powell Hubble
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors …
Quote for Today: Ezinne Orjiako
Brother, why do we fight like we are not flesh of flesh? Blood of blood. Bone of bone. Like if the time came I would not go to war for …
Quote for Today: Robert Macfarlane
On almost every front, we have begun a turning away from a felt relationship with the natural world. The blinding of the stars is only one aspect of this retreat …
Quote for Today: Kami Garcia
There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so …
Quote for Today: A.S. Byatt
All the way from London, he had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of her. …
Quote for Today: Alan Turing
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. ― Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay
Quote for Today: Bill Bryson
Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of …
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far …
40 Days of Poetry: Day 4: The Waking by Theodore Roethke
In response to the Covid-19 outbreak around the globe, Synkroniciti will be posting a video of a poem every day for forty days. If you would like to participate, please …