Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like. – Johann von Goethe
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers – a living prismatic gem…. it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description. – W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology. – Nina Fedoroff
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart thats the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. – William Odom
