we can’t just have everything without complications, you & i. there’d be no story without complications. with nothing to overcome, we’d die unstoried deaths.
Reblogged from Sonido Inconforme
bulls in a china shop.
forever going round in circles or, rather, turning on her own axis..
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the secrets of evolution are death & time- the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment, & time for a long succession of small mutations that were by accident adaptive, time for the slow accumulation of patterns of favorable mutations. part of the resistance to darwin & wallace derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of the millennia, much less the aeons. what does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? we are like butterflies who flutter for a day & think it is forever.
— carl sagan
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