Quote from my reading: The Universe

“…faith in a universe not measured by our fears….”

Yankee from Olympus, Catherine Drinker Bowen, p. 353.

Quote from my reading: The Future of Mankind

“I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be—that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.”

Yankee from Olympus, Catherine Drinker Bowen, p. 353.

Quote from my reading: Age

“As I grow older, I grow calm.”

Yankee from Olympus, Catherine Drinker Bowen, p. 353.

Quote from my reading: Freedom

Freedom means the right to experiment.

Yankee from Olympus, Catherine Drinker Bowen, p. 346.

Quote from my reading: Niagara Falls

Comments recorded by people viewing Niagara Falls: “Roll on.” “Ceaseless thunder.” “Echoing the nothingness of men.” “Emotions of sublimity.” “Boiling waters.” “Didn’t it look grand—and you feel small?” “This is but the breathing of the great Imo! What must his anger be.” “Oh God! Great are thy works! Oh! Man! How small are thine, when placed in the same view.” “Don’t men know what they are going to write before they begin, and say it so; they and some others know, after it is written.”

American Earth, 2008, pp. 50 to 61.

Quote from my reading: Trees

“It needs but a few short minutes to bring one of these trees to the ground; the rudest boor passing along the highway may easily do the deed; but how many years must pass ere its equal stand on the same spot.” Susan F. Cooper. 1850. Rural Hours.

American Earth, 2008, p. 57.

Quote from my reading: Trees

“At length, nearly three long centuries after the Genoese had crossed the ocean, the white man came to plant a home on this spot, and it was then the great change began; the axe and the saw, the forge and the wheel, were busy from dawn to dusk, cows and swine fed in thickets whence the wild beasts had fled, while the ox and the horse drew away in chains the fallen trunks of the forest.” Susan F. Cooper. 1850. Rural Hours.

American Earth, 2008, p. 54.