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“A hare's movement seems plagued by the flicks and judders of restrained energy, as if carrying an ache that can only be relieved by running. The rest of the time it's as though they're absorbing the earth's energy, tapped into a ley line, shivering with pent-up static”
― Common Ground
― Common Ground
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
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“A hoverfly is held in a sunbeam, an insect in amber.”
― Common Ground
― Common Ground
“Time spent in one place deepens this interaction, creating a melding and meshing that can feel a bit like love. In the drowsy light of the coming evening I not only see where I've walked before, but who I was when I walked there. What I was feeling; what I was thinking. And isn't this how we navigate this sphere? Creating fusions of human and place, attaching meaning and emotions, drawing cognitive maps that make scenes of the realm beyond our comprehension? Our connection to the world is always two things at once: instinctive and augmented.”
― Common Ground
― Common Ground
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