Petals Floating By, Drift Through

Self-righteous People Can Talk Themselves Into Forgetting They Are Part Of A Civilization. They Can Then Feed On That Culture, Bringing It Down. It's Happened Many Times In The Past. It Could Happen To Us.

Learn To Control Ego. Humans Hold Their Dogmas And Biases Too Tightly, And We Only Think That Our Opponents Are Dogmatic! But We All Need Criticism. Criticism Is The Only Known Antidote To Error.

...where Were Answers To The Truly Deep Questions? Religion Promised Those, Though Always In Vague Terms, While Retreating From One Line In The Sand To The Next. Don't Look Past This Boundary, They Told Galileo, Then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, And Crick, Always Retreating With Great Dignity Before The Latest Scientific Advance, Then Drawing The Next Holy Perimeter At The Shadowy Rim Of Knowledge.

Only People With Full Stomachs Become Environmentalists.

We Already Live A Very Long Time For Mammals, Getting Three Times As Many Heartbeats As A Mouse Or Elephant. It Never Seems Enough Though, Does It?