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Look around you: there are so many remarkable accomplishments to appreciate. Each of these is humanity being true to itself, as a hummingbird is true to itself by building a nest, a peach tree by bearing fruit, and a nimbus cloud by
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“Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.’350”
― The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
― The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone
“Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art-and in criticism today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.”
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
“I do not think it too remote that we may come to regard the Earth, as some have suggested, as one organism, of which Mankind is a functional part-the mind, perhaps: different from the rest of nature, but different as a man's brain is from his lungs.”
― Should Trees have Standing?
― Should Trees have Standing?
“The time may be on hand when these sentiments, and the early stirrings of the law, can be coalesced into a radical new theory or myth -felt as well as intellectualized-of man's relationships to the rest of nature. I do not mean "myth" in a demeaning sense of the term, but in the sense in which, at different times in history, our social "facts" and relationships have been comprehended and integrated by reference to the "myths" that we are co-signers of a social contract, that the Pope is God's agent, and that all men are created equal. Pantheism, Shinto and Tao all have myths to offer. But they are all, each in its own fashion, quaint, primitive and archaic. What is needed is a myth that can fit our growing body of knowledge of geophysics, biology and the cosmos.”
― Should Trees have Standing?
― Should Trees have Standing?
“Humans belong to the group of conscious beings that are carbon-based, solar system-dependent, limited in knowledge, prone to error and mortal.’ It is strangely comforting to be granted tacit permission to make mistakes just because we are human.”
― All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
― All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
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