Entry 123

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost

A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart

Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there?
Larry Anderson



Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
Dick Gregory

Entry 122

The true harvest of my life is intangible---a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

Henry David Thoreau

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

Paul Cezanne

My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.

William Wordsworth

Entry 121

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha


Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain


I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.
George Bernard Shaw


When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.
Chinese proverb


Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon, but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!
Sri Sathya Sai Baba



Beauty is a form of genius---it is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Oscar Wilde

Entry 120

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.
Picasso

When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, "Monet" or "Manet", I said, "I like mayonnaise." She just stared at me, so I said it again, louder. then she left. I guess she went to try to find some mayonnaise for me.
Jack Handey

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?
Picasso

Entry 119

Not in Utopia---subterranean fields---
Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where!
But in the very world, which is the world
Of all of us---the place where in the end
We find our happiness, or not at all!
William Wordsworth

The hunt of the unicorn. The evaluation of our souls.
Unknown

A wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn. Tibetan proverb Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone, unicorns live inside the true believer's heart. Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns. Bruce Coville If you think, out of ten billion suns in the Milky Way, that this pitiful speck of dust, this emerald with the yellow Sun in the outermost corner of God's mind, is the only planet to host life, you need a Vision! Ramtha Knight

Entry 118

Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.
AL GORE

Speech at National Sierra Club Convention

Sept. 9, 2005

Last year was the warmest recorded on Earth's surface, and it was unusually hot in the Arctic, U.S. space agency NASA said on Tuesday. All five of the hottest years since modern record-keeping began in the 1890s occurred within the last decade, according to analysis by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In descending order, the years with the highest global average annual temperatures were 2005, 1998, 2002, 2003 and 2004, NASA said in a statement. "It's fair to say that it probably is the warmest since we have modern meteorological records," said Drew Shindell of the NASA institute in New York City. "Using indirect measurements that go back farther, I think it's even fair to say that it's the warmest in the last several thousand years."
Deborah Zabarenko

Reuters UK, 24 Jan 06

Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and -- now -- Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

29 May 06

The advent of changes in global climate signals that we are now living beyond the Earth's capacity to absorb a major waste product.
Anthony McMichael

Australian National University, Canberra

9 Feb 06

Rising ocean temperatures linked by some studies to tropical storms are very likely a result of global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research. The lead author of the new study, Benjamin D. Santer of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of the Energy Department, said the findings suggested that further warming would probably make hurricanes stronger in coming decades… The researchers compared a century of observed temperature changes with those produced in more than 80 computer simulations of how oceans respond to natural and human influences on the climate. The simulations were generated on 22 different computer models at 15 different research centers. The simulations correctly mimicked the cooling caused by plumes from volcanic eruptions, which temporarily block the sun. At the same time, the authors said, the only warming influence that could explain the changes in the oceans was the buildup of heat-trapping smokestack and tailpipe gases in the air.
Andrew C. Revkin

Study Links Tropical Ocean Warming to Greenhouse Gases

The New York Times, 12 Sep 06

Entry 117

In my mind, there is no question that they're out there. My career is well established. My texts books are required reading in all the major capitals on planet earth. If you want to become a physist to learn about the unified field theory, you read my books. Therefore, I'm in a position to say: Yes- Most likely they're out there, perhaps even visted, perhaps on our moon.
Professor Michio Kaku

I've been convinced for a long time that the flying saucers are real and interplanetary. In other words we are being watched by beings from outer space.
Albert M. Chop
Deputy Public Relations director at NASA

Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control. It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is. I can tell you, behind the scenes, high ranking military officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs.
Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter
Former director of the C.I.A.

Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its Nuncios (embassies) in various countries, such as Mexico, Chile and Venezuela.
Monsignor Corrado Balducci

All Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin --- flying saucers, or UFOs, if you want to call them by that name. Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed Mission Control, who then ordered absolute silence.
Maurice Chatelain
Former chief of NASA Communications Systems

Entry 116

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Mark Twain

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

Matt Groening

Were kisses all the joys in bed, one woman would another wed.

Shakespeare