

“Forse il pericolo che minaccia più gravemente l'evoluzione di un'etica della terra è il fatto che i nostri sistemi educativi ed economici vanno nella direzione opposta a quella che li condurrebbe verso lo sviluppo di un'intensa consapevolezza della terra. L'uomo moderno è separato dalla terra da troppi intermediari e arnesi; non ha un rapporto vitale con essa e per lui "terra" significa solo lo spazio fra una città e l'altra, dove si producono i raccolti. Se lo si lascia libero un giorno in campagna, in un luogo che non sia un campo da golf o un belvedere, si annoierà a morte. Se i raccolti fossero prodotti con l'idroponica e non con l'agricoltura gli andrebbe benissimo e inoltre preferisce i sostituti sintetici del legno, pelle, lana e di altri prodotti naturali della terra. In poche parole, la terra ormai gli va stretta.”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“But of course, it had all been her – by her and about her, and now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky”
― Atonement
― Atonement

“The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven.
Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander

“I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.”
― The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
― The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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