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Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

by Carl Safina (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, africa, ecology, nature

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A Terrível Segunda Guerra (Mundial) (História Horrível)

by Terry Deary

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Portugal na Idade do Gelo, Território e Habitantes

by João Zilhão

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“It's no good trying to get rid of your aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

tags: acceptance, alone, companionship, d-h-lawrence, lady-chatterley-s-lover, natural, solitude

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“We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated. We became cognitive cyborgs as soon as we became fluent readers, and the consequences of that were profound.”
― Ted Chiang, The Best of Subterranean

tags: influence-the-world, literacy, technology

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“Para el monolingüe no hay sino una lengua desde donde se piensa un solo mundo, y lo distinto siempre se da -si es que se da- peligrosamente: en traducción.”
― Sylvia Molloy, Vivir entre lenguas

tags: language

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“This is a historical lesson of immense significance, and should be kept in mind by anyone who thinks his refusal of Bitcoin means he doesn't have to deal with it. History shows it is not possible to insulate yourself from the consequences of others holding money that is harder than yours.”
― Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

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“A mycelial network is a map of a fungus’s recent history and is a helpful reminder that all life-forms are in fact processes not things. The “you” of five years ago was made from different stuff than the “you” of today. Nature is an event that never stops. As William Bateson, who coined the word genetics, observed, “We commonly think of animals and plants as matter, but they are really systems through which matter is continually passing.”
― Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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