#guangxi — Public Fediverse posts

Il profondo paradosso del carsismo che preserva e al tempo stesso intrappola una magnolia
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=45011

#scienza #ambiente #alberi #doline #paesaggio #carsismo #studi #ricerca #ecologia #sopravvivenza #natura #ecologia #alberi #arbusti #magnolie #tiankeng #cina #Guangxi #genetica #selezione #evoluzione #piante #vegetali #botanica

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
-- John Burroughs

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnBurroughs #Belief

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ArthurSchopenhauer #Change

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in a few words. If you can, win over the conversation of your company to what it should be by your own.
-- Epictetus (55-135 CE)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Epictetus #Silence

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
-- Thomas Jefferson

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasJefferson #Government #Resistance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
-- William Osler

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamOsler #Medicine

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Kiinassa Guangxin alueen tulvat vaatineet jo 39 uhria https://yle.fi/a/74-20235517?origin=rss/Mastodon

#Kiina #Guangxi #ympäristö #tulvat

BREAKING! 4 #Guangxi Reservoirs Fail At Once, Tens Of Thousands Missing, Three Gorges Next? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th8OyTIPzdw

Tagesschau sieht das eher harmlos mit 4 Toten, offenbar aber Zehntausende vermisst in #China bei Dammbrüchen. nicht mal top Meldung hier.

#dammbruch #klimawandel

Just massive floods in #Guangxi China

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.
-- Alexander Tyler (circa 1750)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlexanderTyler #Democracy #Politics #TheMajority

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
-- Voltaire

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Voltaire #Dissent #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

L’incompiuta opera del grattacielo in bilico tra il mondo contadino e l’oriunda genesi della mitologia cinese
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=44706

#costruzioni #edifici #palazzi #strano #cina #Guangxi #mitologia #folklore #personaggi #architettura #contadini #identità #divertimento #puntidiriferimento #turismo #viaggi #eclettismo #sincretismo #torri #grattacieli

An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MahatmaGandhi #NonViolence #Revenge #Violence

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Fossils from Chinese Cave Fill Crucial Gap in History of Gigantopithecus blacki

Deep inside a limestone cave in southern China, paleontologists have uncovered an assemblage of thirteen fossilize…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #China #Climate #climatechange #Early-MiddlePleistocenetransition #Fossil #Gigantopithecus #Gigantopithecusblacki #Greatape #Guangxi #Hominid #paleoclimate #Pleistocene #Primate #Teeth #YanliCave1
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/708719/

The future of our civilization depends upon our ability to select and control our heritage from the past, to alter our present attitudes and habits, and to project fresh forms into which our energies may be freely poured.
-- Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LewisMumford #Civilization #TheFuture

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Perhaps nothing government does, or will not stop doing, should be surprising in a country in which a Kansas bank was fined because it did not have Braille instructions on the ATM machines in its drive-through banking lanes.
-- George F. Will

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeFWill #Politics

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

All power corrupts, but some must govern.
-- John le Carré

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnleCarr #Government #Power

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Sickness is dependent upon the blunders of society.
-- Pierre Cabanis (1890)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PierreCabanis #Medicine #Society

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Countless audiences passively soak in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open.
-- Aldous Huxley

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Nonsense #Passivity #Television

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VaclavHavel #Existence #Meaning

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
-- Mel Brooks

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MelBrooks #Humor

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtVonnegut #Television

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
-- Gian Vincenzo Gravina

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GianVincenzoGravina #Boorishness

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WinstonChurchill #Giving #MakingaLiving #Life

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
-- Erich Fromm

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ErichFromm #HumanDestiny #TheFuture #ThePast

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology