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David George Haskell

“Many biologists claim that our thoughts and feelings of”ethics and meaning” derive only from the proclivities of our nervous systems. Our behaviour and psychology developed by the process of evolution, as did the minds and emotions of animals: so no us and them, just different variations on evolutionary themes. If so, ethics are vapors arising from our synapses, not truths with objective validity outside our own minds.”

David George Haskell, The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors by David George Haskell
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