Aleksandar

“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Most homes look as if they had been built by someone who has heard of a house but never seen one.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“People aren’t the apex species they think they are. Other creatures-bigger, smaller, slower, faster, older, younger, more powerful-call the shots, make the air, and eat sunlight. Without them, nothing.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“In contrast to an object or a machine, a body regularly splits off a part of itself in order to survive and incorporates a piece of the foreign world into itself. This is precisely why it is wrong to compare a life-form with a machine: A machine does not metabolize. The fuel that I put into the tank burns but does not transform itself into another body.”
― Andreas Weber, Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology