From The Ancients, by John Larison:
What bounty did old men waste to bring upon their children such destruction?
From Shy Creatures, by Clare Chambers:
Dirt is never destroyed, only transferred, he thought, dispirited by this experience of housework.
From On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin-quoted in Carrie Vaughn’s The Naturalist Society:
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
From “Afghanistan: A Forgotten Medieval Kingdom,” by Timur Khan:
In history, our sources paint a picture of the world at any given time. Even if we try hard to read critically, we are always guided by what we read, whether words in a manuscript or molecules on an artifact. And there are always huge gaps in what posterity has left to us. Sometimes, a new source is found or incorporated, changing how we view the pictures already formed for us. We might discover a new perspective, a new angle – or even a whole society, a whole kingdom, previously unknown.
