willow sky

whoa i walk and wonder why.



dutch baklavah - willow sky
mix 1

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1. nick drake - northern sky
2. the kinks - big sky
3. beaches - the sky was white
4. queens of the stone age - the sky is fallin'
5. animal collective - what would i want sky
6. six organs of admittance - cover your wounds with the sky
7. geotic - greenery beyond clouds (the oaccas' city in the sky)
8. paul mccartney - vanilla sky
9. air - new star in the sky
10. pink floyd - goodbye blue sky

mixed/edited with garageband.

"we on earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. we are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. we have a choice: we can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. what happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.

the earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

[the nuclear arms race] is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

you can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe.

the world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

it is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. but is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? it does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

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