The Turtle
One of the world's oldest living animals, Harriet the tortoise, celebrated her 175th birthday on Tuesday -- with a pink hibiscus flower cake at her retirement home in northern Australia.
To celebrate this special day, here are some quotes. Are they related? You decide:
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time." - Albert Camus
"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it." - Henry David Thoreau
"The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible." - Ray Bradbury
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." - Carl Jung
"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates." - T.S. Eliot
"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why." - Kurt Vonnegut
"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration." - Kahlil Gibran
posted by Chris W. @ 11:44 PM
