#sphere

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#circumference #everywhere #infinite #nature #nowhere

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#back #different #down #i #immediate

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer. ↗

— George P. Shultz

#atmosphere #debate #debating #ever #gets

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#changes #child #fiction #grown #grown man

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#dare #extent #great #great extent #happy

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#handicraft #industry #lifted #major #manufacture

Leave women to find their sphere. ↗

— Lucy Stone

#leave #sphere #their #women

Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in; or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle. ↗

— J.R. Miller

#sweetness #beauty

His goal (Bezos's)was not just to make browsing for books easy, but an enjoyable experience. “People don’t just buy books because they need books,” he has said. “There are products like that. Pharmaceuticals are that way. Nobody enjoys browsing the Preparation H counter. But people will gladly spend hours in a bookstore, so you have to make the shopping experience fun and engaging. ↗

— Richard L. Brandt

#book-lovers #experience #experience

Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable place we know of in a forbidding universe. We all depend on it to live and we are compelled to share it; it is our only home... the earth's biosphere seems almost magically suited to human beings and indeed it is, for we evolved through eons of intimate immersion within it. We cannot live long or well without a functioning biosphere, and so it is worth everything we have. ↗

— Joseph Guth

#conservation #earth #ecology #environment #environmentalism