Eye to I

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain."

Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

Take a good book at this

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries."

René Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)

Maurice Herzog just died

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He paid for the glory [of climbing the Annapurna] in the form of several fingers and toes that had to be amputated because of frostbite.

"You can see what I have less of, but I feel what I have more of and it is incomparably greater," he later observed.

Show News: 12 miles of dead squid wash ashore

Ten Commandments go digital - Research - University of Cambridge

Ten Commandments go digital - Research - University of Cambridge

Dwritving

"Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way."

E.L. Doctorow, writer (b. 1931)

Time lapsed planes

"You don't have to be a Prostitute" - Flight of the Conchords

Time lapse video captures meteors off Llyn peninsula

Nasa camera captures 'fire-ball' over Texas