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For quite some time, I also yielded to such skepticism, which is shared by most of my colleagues. The embarrassing question “Why?” is seemingly insoluble. But surely all problems remain insoluble as long as nobody tackles them?
“What frightens people most will one day turn to wonder. And then people will do what four billion years have shaped them to do: stop and see just what it is they’re seeing.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Character is all that matters in the end." It's a child's creed, of course; just one small step up from the belief that the creator of the universe would care to dole out sentences like a judge in federal court. To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“the word tree and the word truth come from the same root.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“He tries to read a novel, something about privileged people having trouble getting along with each other in exotic locations. He throws it against the wall. Something has broken in him. His appetite for human self-regard is dead.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“How reason is just another weapon of control.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
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