Quotes by "James Gurney"

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.
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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
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