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Henri Cartier-Bresson called the taking of a good photograph a decisive moment. ‘Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera,’
These days we can take hundreds pf photos and store many thousands on our mobile phones. So do we really need these decisive moments anymore? Or is it just a case of click and hope, and then never look at your photos again.
“We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entwined as they looked at a third thing. Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment. Each member of a couple is separate; the two come together in double attention.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person”
― Fifty Degrees Below
― Fifty Degrees Below
“The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—”
― Antarctica
― Antarctica
“An excess of reason is itself a form of madness”
― Forty Signs of Rain
― Forty Signs of Rain
“That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”
― Green Mars
― Green Mars
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