“Give children a chance to love the earth before we ask them to save it.”

“Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.Dava Sobel”

“He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.”

“[John] Harrison [could not] express himself clearly in writing.... No matter how brilliantly ideas formed in his mind, or crystallized in his clockworks, his verbal descriptions failed to shine with the same light.... The first sentence [of his last published work] runs on, virtually unpunctuated, for twenty-five pages." Dava Sobel, Longitude, p66”

“We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

“We do not inherit the Earth from our parents. We borrow her from our children.”

“The secret of successfully giving yourself away lies not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warm-hearted impulses. You have to train yourself to obey giving impulses on the instant -- before they get a chance to cool. When you give impulsively, something happens inside of you that makes you glow, sometimes for hours.”