Stephen King commented that if seven hundred monkeys banged on typewriters for seven hundred years, one of them would turn out the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true ( that doesn’t mean monkeys are not superior to...
I can't imagine anything more terrifying than a world full of identical beings. Generic clones. An insipidly amorphous culture that takes an impoverished environment for granted. The only thing that makes life bearable is the diversity of creatures that populate our globe. The place you were...
“When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible, and we had the land. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, we had the Bible in our hand, and they had the land.”—Jomo Kenyatta, First President of Kenya "Only...