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• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
  -- My First Summer in the Sierra , 1911, page 110....
• If we want to learn anything, we mustn't try to learn everything. -- The Lump Law
• One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature -- inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste.
  And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out....
• Life is to the universe as rust is to iron. We are
  in the final judgement (on a planetary scale, certainly), nothing more than an advanced form of corrosion, just one more way for the universe to wear itself out a little faster....
• Strano's Law: When all else fails, try the boss's suggestion.
• When all else fails, try the boss's suggestion. -- Strano's Law
• If we don't survive, we don't do anything else. -- John Sinclai
• When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop
  iped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with all other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty....