Quote for Today: Tom Robbins
Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our …
Quote for Today: Carl Sagan
We can explain the wan blueness of this little world because we know it well. Whether an alien scientist newly arrived at the outskirts of our solar system could reliably …
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated …
Quote for Today: Robin McKinley
The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You …
Quote for Today: Chief Luther Standing Bear
From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying life force that flowed in and through all things—the flowers of the plains, blowing winds, rocks, trees, birds, animals—and …
Quote for Today: Robert Francis
I follow Plato only with my mind Pure beauty strikes me as a little thin A little cold, however beautiful. I am in love with …
Quote for Today: Pablo Picasso
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from …
Quote for Today: Chief Seattle
– The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. Man did not weave the web …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #15: Capitol Reef National Park via Amazing Places on our Planet
Day 15 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series is a fly-over of Capitol Reef National Park in Utah by Milosh Kitchovitch of Amazing Places on our Planet. His stunning drone footage …
Quote for Today: Annie Proulx
Dangerous and indifferent ground: against its fixed mass the tragedies of people count for nothing although the signs of misadventure are everywhere. No past slaughter nor cruelty, no accident nor …