All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't e… - Norman Maclean

When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so beautiful, the beautiful being something you know added to something you see, in a whole that is different from the sum of its parts. What I saw might have been just another winter scene, although an impressive one. But what I knew was that the earth underneath was alive and that by tomorrow, certainly by the day after, it would be all green again. So what I saw because of what I knew was a kind of death with the marvellous promise of less than a three-day resurrection.

A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.

It is clear to me now that the universe in its truculence doesn’t permit itself to be that well known.