creating things discovering things helping people"Neither humus nor humans are humble at all. We are audacious, like nature herself. We are wet, fecund, protean, dangerous. When we start to comprehend this in the widening circles of the world, we know something worth knowing. We know that we must be responsible." - Logan"From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, "A thousand types are gone. I care for nothing. All shall go." - Tennyson "We live our lives within geological instants, and we should make our moral decisions at this proper scale - not at the mircroment of thoughtless exploitation for personal profit and public harm; but not at Earth's time scale of billions of years either (a grand irrelivancy for our species' potential tenure of thousands or, at most, a few million years). We do not let children succumb to easily curable infections just because we know that all people will die eventually." - Gould Haiscuaj txub kaum
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...And it echoes in the bare red hills and over the bare red fields of the broken tribe. And it is sung in love and humility and gratitude, and the humble simple people pour their lives into the song... ...They begin to clap in complex rythms and to sing in a strange yodeling style that bridges octaves gracefully, creating a mesmerizing array of sounds. Gradually they collect into a circle around a fire...
child-like humble openmindedness and curious skepticism