quotes at random, no. 9

In 1701 AD the Berkshire farmer Jethro Tull devised a simple seed drill based on organ pipes, which resulted in eight times as many grains harvested for every grain sown. Like most agricultural innovators since, he was vilified. A century later the threshing machine was greeted by riots.

Today nearly half the nitrogen atoms in the proteins of an average human being's body came at some time or another through an ammonia factory. Ears of plenty

So the entire Inca empire, which was less than a century old when the Spanish arrived, became involved in an attempt at cosmic regulation - to change the course of the stars by changing the course of human history on Earth: 'as below, so above.'

innocence of the sophistications of learning, its research without love, its knowledge without inspiration, its method without grace; freedom from its shame at trying to know many things as well as from its pride of trying to know but one thing;

The great artist is thus a solitary figure. He has, as Frost said, "a lover's quarrel with the world."

Come bleed with us!

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