Oxana Timofeeva > Quotes

“We must learn to share not because we want to live, but because generosity breaks with the restrictive logic of survival.”
― Oxana Timofeeva, Solar Politics

“Let me call it cosmic solidarity: solar politics, which breaks the promethean vicious circle of worship and extractivism, begins from the recognition that the sun is neither a master, nor a slave. The sun is a comrade.”
― Oxana Timofeeva, Solar Politics

“Why was it so important, for natural scientists, to articulate the idea that the Australian wombats did not really exhibit altruism, solidarity, and care for neighboring species, but only instinctual behavior? Because solidarity and altruism fall within the domain of morality to which, according to our scientific policy, animals remain alien.”
― Oxana Timofeeva, Solar Politics

“We are still not able to estimate the extent to which animals dance, sing, play; to give proper respect to their plasticity, enthusiasm, or wisdom.”
― Oxana Timofeeva, Solar Politics