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“People divorced from community, occupation, and association are first and foremost among the supporters of extremism.”
― Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

“The crucial fact about sustainability is that it is not a micro phenomenon: there can be no such thing as a “sustainable” house, office building, or household appliance, for the same reason that there can be no such thing as a one-person democracy or a single-company economy.”
― David Owen, Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability

“It is the sense of mystery that, in my opinion, drives the true scientist; the same force, blindly seeing, deafly hearing, unconsciously remembering, that drives the larva into the butterfly. If he has not experienced, at least a few times in his life, this cold shudder down his spine, this confrontation with an immense, invisible face whose breath moves him to tears, he is not a scientist. The blacker the night, the brighter the light.”
― Erwin Chargaff

“Heaven is a place where you cannot change and nothing can ever happen, so the things you love are always eternal. Hell is exactly the same.”
― Geoff Ryman, Air