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Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell

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Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life

by George Monbiot

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The Last Man

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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“You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

tags: soul-freedom-melancholy

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“It is not my contention that chemical insecticides must never be used. I do contend that we have put poisonous and biologically potent chemicals indiscriminately into the hands of persons largely or wholly ignorant of their potentials for harm. We have subjected enormous numbers of people to contact with these poisons, without their consent and often without their knowledge.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

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“Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.”
― Émile Michel Cioran, The New Gods

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“The idea that there might be limits to growth is for many people impossible to imagine. Limits are politically unmentionable and economically unthinkable. The culture tends to deny the possibility of limits by placing a profound faith in the powers of technology, the workings of a free market, and the growth of the economy as the solution to all problems, even the problems created by growth.”
― Donella H. Meadows, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

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“All this has come about because of the sudden rise and prodigious growth of an industry for the production of man-made or synthetic chemicals with insecticidal properties. This industry is a child of the Second World War. In the course of developing agents of chemical warfare, some of the chemicals created in the laboratory were found to be lethal to insects. The discovery did not come by chance: insects were widely used to test chemicals as agents of death for man.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

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