Darwin Quote on Living Well

Charles Darwin was, of course, one of the greatest scientific minds ever.

And I was interested in a line from his autobiography where he says,

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

And I don’t know, Grant, that’s really stuck with me.

The fact that this brilliant scientist, you know, looking back over his life, wished that he had read more poetry.

Yeah, that reminds me of something that has been making around the Internet since the pandemic started.

And it’s something along the lines of just I want you to realize what you turned to when things got tough.

You turned to the arts.

You turned to books.

You turned to movies.

You turned to television.

You turned to poetry.

You turned to theater.

And that’s where you go when life needs to be explained or things are difficult.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

And all the more reason to support artists in all forms, right?

Yeah.

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