Karolis

“Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action.”
― Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

“Who has ever heard of any ministry of education that is called upon to solve any social problem acutely felt in the country? Never has such a case occurred because the world of education is a sort of retreat where the individuals, for the whole of their scholastic life, remain isolated from the problems of the world.”
― Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind

“Today the National Park Service employs a more casual approach to endangering wildlife: neglect. It spends almost nothing—less than 3 percent of its budget—on research of any type, which is why no one knows how many mussels are extinct or even why they are going extinct.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

“Turgenev's brain was found to be one of the largest on record for neurologically typical individuals, weighing 2012 grams.”
― Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Fathers and Sons-Original Edition