Giulia Màttera

“All readings are also mis-readings, re-readings, partial readings, imposed readings, and imagined readings of a text that is originally and finally never simply there. Just as the world is originally fallen apart, the text is always already enmeshed in contending practices and hopes.”
― Donna J. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

“Truthfulness, uprightness, and honesty are in this connection creative forces, while mendacity, deceitfulness, and dishonesty are destructive forces.”
― Rudolf Steiner, How to Know Higher Worlds

“Blood and flowers were alike, Isao thought, in that both were quick to dry up, quick to change their substance. And precisely because of this, then, blood and flowers could go on living by taking on the substance of glory. Glory in all its form was inevitably something metallic.”
― Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses

“E diceva: siete voi di città che la chiamate natura. È così astratta nella vostra testa che è astratto pure il nome. Noi qui diciamo bosco, pascolo, torrente, roccia, cose che uno può indicare con il dito. Cose che si possono usare. Se non si possono usare, un nome non glielo diamo perché non serve a niente.”
― Paolo Cognetti, Le otto montagne