Series of Fortunate Events

This looks like the perfect place to to a walk.

This looks like the perfect place to to a walk.

(Source: xm74x)

As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But humanity doesn’t want to die. As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generations, giving birth to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire.

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Enders Game by Orson Scott Card

(via quotes-from-literature)