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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”
― Richard G. Wilkinson, 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.”
― Susan Sontag, 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.”
― Christopher Stone, 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.”
― Christopher Stone, Should Trees have Standing?