We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

  • -- Asa Gray ASA灰色

我们曾说过,生命的规模是如此之小,以致于个体在其整个存在过程中还没有足够的专门化到足以成为独特的植物或动物;然而,这些都是更简单形式的确定的生命。

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There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.

在我的童年时代,有一股贫穷的潜流。我们和我的祖母住在她的两居室里,我和我的父母睡在一起。我们有便宜的假期,我不得不为我的自行车攒钱,等我长大了就买一张纸。

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

自我控制意味着想要在我精神存在的无限辐射的某个随机点上有效。

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

我认为这么多的人离开这个世界,带走他们所有的知识是错误的。

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

买书比读书简单得多,读书比吸收书中的内容容易得多。

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

作家就像一棵豆科植物——他有他的小日子,然后变得有弦。

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

竹子不是野草,它是开花植物。竹子是一种珍贵的植物。