ChrisR

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ChrisR’s Quotes

“With me, you know it's like this: when I sober up, I get wise and stupid, and when I'm drunk, I get stupid and wise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“It is only the old who look older in tragedy.”
― Heidi Sopinka, The Dictionary of Animal Languages

tags: old-age, over-the-hill

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“Just think what this land would raise with plenty of water! Why, it will be a frigging garden!”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“If you want honey you need a hive of bees. But if you were trying to decide if making honey was a good idea, bees would be the last creatures to ask.”
― Bill McKibben, Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist

tags: corporations, environment, resource-extraction

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“Our very human to simplify and seek one answer may explain our ongoing difficulty in recognizing impending synergy and acting before systems collapse. We are prone to accept death by a thousand little cuts, in which one degraded aspect of our environment or health becomes familiar and accepted as normal--and then another.”
― Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive

tags: agriculture, bees, boiling-frog, doom

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