Gavin

“To perceive matter that casts no shadow, you must search not for its presence but for its consequence.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey

“As we have amplified our ability to shape the world, so we become more responsible for the long afterlives of that shaping. The Anthropocene asks of us the question memorably posed by the immunologist Jonas Salk: ‘Are we being good ancestors?”
― Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey

“Beyond a hundred years even generating a basic scenario for individual life or society becomes difficult, let alone extending compassion across much greater reaches of time towards the unborn inhabitants of worlds-to-be. As a species, we have proved to be good historians but poor futurologists.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey

“The same three tasks recur across cultures and epochs: to shelter what is precious, to yield what is valuable, and to dispose of what is harmful.

Shelter (memories, precious matter, messages, fragile lives).

Yield (information, wealth, metaphors, minerals, visions).

Dispose (waste, trauma, poison, secrets).

Into the underland we have long placed that which we fear and wish to lose, and that which we love and wish to save.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey