The Western Ghats of Karnataka. Blink and this area may have already been destroyed, with ever-widening roads, street-lighting, power-lines, dams, and habitations following well-established and misguided notions of development that are entrenched in the minds of most people. These are the wild spaces that inspire much of my contribution to Wikipedia, a land that supports life and hosts enough wonders to engage everyone, physically and mentally, now and in the future. Incidentally, within this view live floral and faunal elements that represent more than a million potential Wikipedia entries. Converted (or "developed") into a boring human settlement, it would not produce a single notable person.
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Because I have known the torment of thirst I would dig a well where others may drink
Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people - Thor Heyerdahl
I sometimes think that general and popular treatises are almost as important for the progress of science as original work.
When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe.- John Muir
The aim of science should certainly be to remove the mystery from natural phenomena, but not to take away wonder or that quality of nature which allows for the development and play of aesthetic appreciation.-FF Darling
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.-Van Gogh
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering-Aldo Leopold
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.- Charles Darwin
... gravitation of scholars' roles from passive appropriator of information to active provider of information by contributing directly into the common pool.- Elinor Ostrom
We humans may be the smartest objects that ever came down the pike of life's history on earth, but we are outstandingly inept about certain issues, particularly when our emotional arrogance joins forces with our intellectual ignorance.-SJ Gould
Science should be stripped of whatever tends to clothe it in a strange and repulsive garb; and every thing which, to keep up an appearance of superiority in its professors over the rest of mankind, assumes an unnecessary guise of obscurity, should be sacrificed without mercy.-John Herschel
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The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.-DNA
... setting aside vertebrate chauvinism, it can be said that essentially all organisms are insects. - R. M. May
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.-Rachel Carson
"What's the use of their having names," the Gnat said, "if they won't answer to them?" "No use to them," said Alice, "but it's useful to the people that name them, I suppose. If not, why do they have names at all?" -Lewis Carroll
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. - Karl Popper. கற்றது கைமண் அளவு, கல்லாதது உலகளவு, [What you know is a fistful, what you don't is as big as the world] - Avvaiyar 13th century
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...imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise.-Douglas Adams
..neglect of small things is, indeed, the grand error, in consequence of which so many pass in ignorance and heaviness, that life which nature and art (for after all, art is merely the application of nature) are capable of rendering so intelligent and so full of happiness - Robert Mudie
Did you know that you can look up what any editor has contributed by clicking on "User contributions" under tools when you are on a user page (i.e. the URL has a page with the prefix User:) :
My user name demystified: I have sometimes been asked about what the origin of my username and it really was never meant to be cryptic, it is actually my name and it is pronounced /ʃjɑ:mɐl/ - it is a masculine form of the name of a Hindu goddess - an avatar of Kali known as Shyamala - and from which the Himalayan town of Shimla (see Kali Bari) is Anglicized. A part of my family grew up in Phagli in the Shimla of the British Raj.
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