Wonder is the proper response to reality. Founder @DiscoverEarthHQ 🌏 Writing @ https://t.co/FNsov02RAN
Jan 4, 2019 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
― W.B. Yeats
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
Mar 2, 2018 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Tweetstorm coming in on Will Durant's THE LESSONS OF HISTORY. On themes and lessons observed from 5,000 years of world history.
History is subject to geology.
Climate no longer controls us severely, but it limits us. A tornado can ruin in an hour the city that took a century to build; Let rain become too rare, and civilization disappears under sand
