Chris

“Why does poverty exist? Because stinginess does.”
― Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

“A small 'self' suffers and causes suffering, [while] a love of the living world lets single identities and selfhoods expand and encompass other beings, entities and whole landscapes, such that the self becomes a spacious thing.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Is a River Alive?

“Humans are the most complex and powerful species ever, not just because of what happens in individual brains, but because of how communities of brains work together.”
― Steven Sloman, The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone

“Language, memory, attention--indeed, all mental functions--can be thought of as operating in a way that is distributed across a community according to a division of cognitive labor.”
― Steven Sloman, The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone