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“What shocks me so is the detachment with which we dispense destruction -- not just bombs, but blows to the head of the earth, to populations of insects, plants, and animals, and to one another with senseless betrayal -- and how the proposed solutions are always mechanistic, as if we could fabricate the health of the planet the way we make a new car.”
― Islands, the Universe, Home
― Islands, the Universe, Home
“Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.”
― The Places in Between
― The Places in Between
“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
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“Wisdom is a rarified form of intelligence born of experience, the result of carefully testing your beliefs against reality.”
― On Trails: An Exploration
― On Trails: An Exploration
“Steep curving stone stairs led to a square library on the floor above. The 4,000 books in the library were mostly collected between 1710 and 1730. ... For a moment I was tempted to ask to be locked in. If I could skim ten books a day for a year, I would be able to get a sense of most of what David Hume might have read in 1730 -- an age when it still might just have been possible to read everything.”
― The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland
― The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland
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