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Book cover for A Short History of Progress (The CBC Massey Lectures)
The Australian biologist Tim Flannery has called human beings the “future-eaters.” Each extermination is a death of possibility.24
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This is similar to the idea in A Good Ancestor, and in a bunch of other writings that we're future colonizers. Making often detrimental decisions for those beyond our lifetimes.
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Bill Watterson
“I'M SIGNIFICANT!!!
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Say's the dust speck.”
Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

Rainer Maria Rilke
“Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love… Life always says Yes and No simultaneously. Death (I implore you to believe) is the true Yea-sayer. It stands before eternity and says only: Yes.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

Ryōkan
“Someday I'll be a weather-beaten skull resting on a grass pillow,
Serenaded by a stray bird or two.
Kings and commoners end up the same,
No more enduring than last night's dream.”
Ryokan

Carl Sagan
“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Muriel Spark
“If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life.”
Muriel Spark, Memento Mori

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