As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

  • -- Bodhidharma 达摩菩萨

作为凡人,我们受条件的支配,而不是我们自己。

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Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.

在我们的花园和社区种植本土物种越来越重要,因为本土昆虫、鸟类和野生动物都依赖它们。在数千年,有时甚至是数百万年的时间里,它们共同进化,适应了当地的气候和土壤条件。

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

世界上一般人的表象和观念的形成和支配,并非出于对知识本身作为目的的充分而纯粹的渴望,而是为了使自己更好地适应生活条件而进行的斗争。

That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.

我妈妈就是这么做的。我父亲是她遇到的第一个对她很好的人。她害怕男人,嫁给了一个非常温顺、善良、可爱的男人。她占了上风。她统治着这个家。

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

天才是人类中最幸运的,因为他们必须做的和他们最想做的是一样的。

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

尊敬不会随着人类的死亡而消失,也不会随着人类的生死而消失。