Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.
Interpretation
Embrace life's experiences and the beauty of the world despite its challenges.
This quote encourages individuals to persevere through life's difficulties while appreciating the remarkable experiences the earth offers. It suggests that while life may present heart-wrenching moments, there is a continual flow of wonders if one chooses to remain attentive and open to them.
In practice
During a speech about resilience, you might say, 'Remember the words of Salman Rushdie: live on and survive, for the earth gives forth wonders.'
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.
A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free.
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons
Birding, after all, is just a game. Going beyond that is what is important.
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