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• There’s so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature… yes, that’s it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are – vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth – and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.

  Speaker: Muriel Barbery
  Source: the Elegance of the Hedgehog
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  Posted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:50 AM
  Posted By: Puck
  Comments: None... Be the first to comment!
  Tags: beauty, existentialism, nature

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• It has been estimated that in ceremonial of this kind, salutes to royalty and other distinguished personages, the opening and closing of harbours, guns fired at daybreak and sunset from ships and fortresses throughout the civilized world, some 150,000 cannons are uselessly discharged every twenty-four hours. At six francs a time this amounts to 900,000 francs a day, or 300 millions a year. A detail in passing. Meanwhile the poor continue to die of hunger.

  Speaker: Victor Hugo
  Source: Les Miserables
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  Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:17 PM
  Posted By: Puck
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  Tags: poverty, wealth

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