"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. So the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."
一本书是脆弱的生物,它承受时间的磨损,害怕啮齿动物、自然元素和笨拙的手。因此,图书管理员不仅要保护书籍免受人类的伤害,还要保护它们免受自然的侵害,并将一生奉献给与遗忘力量的斗争。
空白页既是作家最大的恐惧,也是最大的希望。
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
我对生态系统作为一种智能形式的想法感兴趣。
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open heart.
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
The most dangerous risk of all is not taking one.
Sustainable fishing isn't an option—it's the only path forward if we want our industry to survive.
The present state of the system of nature is evidently a resultant of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.