"Remember me as you pass by,
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so you will be.
Remember Death will follow thee."
English tombstone from East Sutton church above the Kentish Weald in Kent. [1]
I heard that mighty Jamshed the King
Carved on a stone near a spring of water these words:
"Many – like us – sat here by this spring
And left this life in the blink of an eye.
We captured the whole world through our courage and strength,
Yet could take nothing with us to our grave."
Persian poetry carved on ancient tombstone in the Tajiki capital of Dushanbe. [2]
Abolitionist
Frederick Douglass wrote:
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. ...Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will. [3]
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part
television series written by
Carl Sagan,
Ann Druyan, and
Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage#Episode 8: Journeys in Space and Time
Episode 8: Journeys in Space and Time
54 min 55 sec
“ | Those worlds in space are as countless as all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the earth. Each of those worlds is as real as ours and every one of them is a succession of incidents, events, occurrences which influence its future. Countless worlds, numberless moments, an immensity of space and time. And our small planet at this moment, here we face a critical branch point in history, what we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants, it is well within our power to destroy our civilisation and perhaps our species as well. If we capitulate to superstition or greed or stupidity we could plunge our world into a time of darkness deeper than the time between the collapse of classical civilisation and the Italian Renaissance. But we are also capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. | ” |
The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist
Alfred Russel Wallace that chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight year period
1854 to
1862, of the southern portion of the
Malay Archipelago including
Malaysia,
Singapore, the islands of
Indonesia, then known as the
Dutch East Indies, and the island of
New Guinea. Its full title was The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with sketches of man and nature.
"Remember me as you pass by,
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so you will be.
Remember Death will follow thee."
English tombstone from East Sutton church above the Kentish Weald in Kent. [1]
I heard that mighty Jamshed the King
Carved on a stone near a spring of water these words:
"Many – like us – sat here by this spring
And left this life in the blink of an eye.
We captured the whole world through our courage and strength,
Yet could take nothing with us to our grave."
Persian poetry carved on ancient tombstone in the Tajiki capital of Dushanbe. [2]
Abolitionist
Frederick Douglass wrote:
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. ...Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will. [3]
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part
television series written by
Carl Sagan,
Ann Druyan, and
Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage#Episode 8: Journeys in Space and Time
Episode 8: Journeys in Space and Time
54 min 55 sec
“ | Those worlds in space are as countless as all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the earth. Each of those worlds is as real as ours and every one of them is a succession of incidents, events, occurrences which influence its future. Countless worlds, numberless moments, an immensity of space and time. And our small planet at this moment, here we face a critical branch point in history, what we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants, it is well within our power to destroy our civilisation and perhaps our species as well. If we capitulate to superstition or greed or stupidity we could plunge our world into a time of darkness deeper than the time between the collapse of classical civilisation and the Italian Renaissance. But we are also capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. | ” |
The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist
Alfred Russel Wallace that chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight year period
1854 to
1862, of the southern portion of the
Malay Archipelago including
Malaysia,
Singapore, the islands of
Indonesia, then known as the
Dutch East Indies, and the island of
New Guinea. Its full title was The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with sketches of man and nature.