Bassa, Joshua S.

"It is the glory of God to conceal a matter but the glory of kings is to search out a matter" Proverbs 25:2

Stay around ambitious men. They'll never mock you for trying.

Wake up babe! We’re obsessing over Dragons and swords again!

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

You believe Aristotle existed but not Jesus?

people with childlike excitement, I hope you never lose your sparkle.

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

Breakup hurts but leaving a bookstore without purchasing a book is unbearable

Early morning reads with Frodo 🖤✨

My university classmate was into fraud, he made us feel less and lazy with his flashy lifestyle, changing phones and gadgets and traveling countries. He applied for US Visa and got approval so easily and he was excited thinking it was God’s work only to be jailed upon arriving.

Sometimes you buy a book on the strength of the title alone

I joined sensible Nigerians to reaffirm that you're a big fool.

“I can’t believe you think there’s a God” I can’t believe you don’t.

If you’re obsessed with books, then we can be friends 📚

Buying books and actually reading the books you bought are two different hobbies.

If you hate Éowyn, you are not a serious person.

@Dostoevskyquot Will begin reading it after finishing The Gambler. It was gifted to me by a friend (arrived yesterday).

What did you think of The Idiot? Should get more attention imo

@victorfatanmi Nooooiiicccceee... I'm starting this baby too.

Picked this one up today 😍

you’re a very stupid page

@TheJobfather__ @DOsisi91 Aye haha 😂

@DOsisi91 Sounds like the Grand Pappy.

Dune inspired Game of Thrones and Star Wars. Frank Herbert is they pappy