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Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
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James Gurney13,109 ratings, 4.28 average rating, 597 reviews
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“Survival of all or none.
One raindrop raises the sea.
Weapons are enemies even to their owners.
Give more, take less.
Others first, self last.
Observe, listen, and learn.
Do one thing at a time.
Sing every day.
Exercise imagination.
Eat to live, don't live to eat.”
― Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
One raindrop raises the sea.
Weapons are enemies even to their owners.
Give more, take less.
Others first, self last.
Observe, listen, and learn.
Do one thing at a time.
Sing every day.
Exercise imagination.
Eat to live, don't live to eat.”
― Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
“Breathe Deep, Seek Peace.”
― Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
― Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
“I can't imagine,' I said one afternoon after a long silence, 'how it would be possible for such a small island to support enough artists and stonecutters to build all these wonders. And I can't imagine how all these different people get along without quarreling.'
'Oh, it is possible,' said Nallab, sucking thoughtfully on a mango, 'but only if you DO imagine it...”
― Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
'Oh, it is possible,' said Nallab, sucking thoughtfully on a mango, 'but only if you DO imagine it...”
― Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
“Time for Kentrosaurus to hatch. Time to plant the millet. Time for the magnolia buds to open. Professor Denison, I'm afraid you persist in thinking of time as numbers. You think of meaningless units of time - weeks, hours, minutes - based on what? Movements of faraway planets? Of what use to us is that? Why not pay attention to the precise 30-year life cycle of the bamboo Guadua trinii or the exactly repeated mitotic cycle of the paramecium? The whole earth has a heartbeat.'
He paused, swung his tail from side to side, and squinted. 'And some things happen too slowly for you to notice. If you sit quite still, you can hear the grinding down of mountains, the stretching upward of trees, the pushing forward of continents - indeed the wearing down of this very waterfall.”
― Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
He paused, swung his tail from side to side, and squinted. 'And some things happen too slowly for you to notice. If you sit quite still, you can hear the grinding down of mountains, the stretching upward of trees, the pushing forward of continents - indeed the wearing down of this very waterfall.”
― Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
“You of the west,' Malik said, 'think of time moving in a straight line, from past to present to future. You eastern brothers regard time as a circle, returning endlessly in a cycle of decay and rebirth. Both ideas have a dimension of the truth. If you were to combine geometrically the movement of the circle with the movement of the line, what would you have?' He snapped his mouth shut and peered at me with an uncanny resemblance to my old schoolmaster.
'The spiral?' I ventured.
'Yes, yes. Or the helix. They are our models of the passage of time.' he said.
'So time moves on, but history repeats itself.'
'Precisely,' he said”
― Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
'The spiral?' I ventured.
'Yes, yes. Or the helix. They are our models of the passage of time.' he said.
'So time moves on, but history repeats itself.'
'Precisely,' he said”
― Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
