Marta

“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”
― Elliott Erwitt

“The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.”
― Frans de Waal

“A partir de cierto punto de productividad, la técnica disci- plinaria, es decir, el esquema negativo de la prohibición, alcanza de pronto su límite. Con el fin de aumentar la productividad se sustituye el paradigma disciplinario por el de rendimiento, por el esquema positivo del poder hacer (Können), pues a partir de un nivel determinado de producción, la negatividad de la prohibición tiene un efecto bloqueante e impide un crecimiento ulterior. La positividad del poder es mucho más eficiente que la negatividad del deber. De este modo, el inconsciente social pasa del deber al poder”
― Byung-Chul Han

“The naturalist E. O. Wilson gave a name to this warm, fuzzy feeling I’m experiencing: biophilia. He defined it as “the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.” Wilson argued that our connection to nature is deeply ingrained in our evolutionary past. That connection isn’t always positive. Take snakes, for instance. The chances of encountering a snake, let alone dying from a snakebite, are extraordinarily remote. Yet modern humans continue to fear snakes even more, studies have found, than car accidents or homicide or any of the dozens of other more plausible ways we might meet our demise. The fear of snakes resides deep in our primitive brain. The fear of the Long Island Expressway, while not insignificant, was added much more recently.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World