Guess who was CEO of the Searle Corp. when the FDA approved Aspartame in 1981 despite objections from the scientific community ….



Donald Rumsfeld

— Chiropractorfin

When yesterday’s ‘triumph of modern chemistry’ turns out to be today’s deadly threat to the global environment, it is legitimate to ask what else we don’t know.
— Denis Hayes

Stop consuming images and start producing them.
— Terrance McKenna (via barelytherearchitect)

I drink to make other people more interesting.
— Ernest Hemingway (via myguidinglights)

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
— Ernest Hemingway (via unculturedmag)

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.
Jonas Salk (via we-are-star-stuff)