Robin Wall Kimmerer Moss Quotes

#1. Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

Nathan Wolfe

#2. A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

Bridges McCall

#4. There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

Robert Breault

#5. Ditto, Ethan said, a surprising amount of venom in his voice. I bit back a proud smile; he seemed to be adopting a little of my snark.

Chloe Neill

#6. I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.

Sandy Koufax

#7. Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

Christopher Hitchens

#8. One gram of moss from the forest floor, a piece about the size of a muffin, would harbour 150,000 protozoa, 132,000 tardigrades, 3,000 springtails, 800 rotifers, 500 nematodes, 400 mites, and 200 fly larvae. These numbers tell us something about the astounding quantity of life in a handful of moss.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#9. If time could run backward, like a film in reverse, we would see this mess reassemble itself into lush green hills and moss-covered ledges of limestone. The streams would run back up the hills to the springs and the salt would stay glittering in underground rooms.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#10. With the evolution of technology, kids really need to be computer-savvy.

Ryan Seacrest

#11. Scripture comforts me, and romance novels give me hope." "Oh yeah? Hope for what?" "Hope that I'll be doing more than quoting scripture with Ambrose Young in the very near future".

Amy Harmon

#12. Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Vittorio Alfieri

#13. night and day, a hundred billion neutrinos from the Sun pass through each square inch of your body, every second, without a trace of interaction with your body's atoms.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#14. In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. [E]very man ought to say to himself, Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?

Jean-Paul Sartre

#16. I knew the flight into the crazy skies of love would always outweigh the uncertainty of days that didn't yet belong to me.

Beth Hoffman