I bow, hoping to become a person who does not settle for familiarity, but always takes on new challenges.
~ Monk Jeongmok, the 53rd prostration of the "108 Prostrations for Buddhists"
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, a stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by biologists and antiquarians chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit — not a fossil earth but a living earth.