When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.
— Bill Hicks (via metaf)
I’d say my mind is average, though, so I’ve never found it inconvenient.
Many a false step is made by standing still.
— Unknown (via thatkindofwoman)
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
— Franz Kafka (via nihilsubsolenovum)
Consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not ‘you’. The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato.
The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.
— NASA Lunar Science Institute, We Originated in the Belly of a Star (via nihilsubsolenovum)
If they don’t need you, it’s okay, you do not live for other people.
— Kyo (via lavender-kitten)
In these quarters, nature unveiled its true malevolent purpose: everything here wanted to sting you, swarm you, bite you. The air creaked with its saturated weight and miasma of rot. The trees, gnarled like grasping hands, seemed like something from another age entirely. They seemed positively made up. Who would invent such trees?
— Excerpt From: Cronin, Justin. “The Twelve.”
Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by nature.
— George Harrison (via ancient-serpent)
