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“Als een sleep wordt de nachtschaduw over de aarde getrokken, en omdat na zonsondergang bijna iedereen tussen de wereldgordels zich te slapen legt, zo vervolgt hij, zou je wanneer je steeds de ondergaande zon volgt, voortdurend kunnen zien hoe de bol die wij bewonen vol ligt met een uitgestrekte, als door de zeis van Saturnus neer-gemaaide en geoogste lichamen - een eindeloos lang kerkhof voor een epileptische mensheid.”
― The Rings of Saturn
― The Rings of Saturn
“La vérité est si obscurcie en ces temps et le mensonge si établi, qu'à moins d'aimer la vérité, on ne saurait la reconnaître.”
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“Most big freshwater fish, in most parts of the world, have all but disappeared from most places where they used to live. As with arapaima, the main reason is over-harvesting, but there are other factors too. Dams block the migration routes of many fish, so they disappear from the water above the dam — or even altogether, if breeding grounds are cut off. Draining of floodplains, cutting off backwaters, competition from invasive species and pollution also play a part. And sometimes it's just willful slaughter, as was the case with the North American alligator gar in the early 1900s, thanks to the incorrect assumption that killing these predators would boost populations of ‘game’ fish.”
― How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling
― How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling
“He asked that roses be planted on his grave. When I checked, a few years ago, a scrappy red rose was blooming there.”
― Orwell's Roses
― Orwell's Roses
“As early humans moved about, they were accompanied by a whole entourage of creatures they had come to depend on, or learned to coexist with — not only their crop plants and domesticated animals, which they carried with them deliberately, but also the creatures that had adopted them during their lengthy process of developing agriculture and animal husbandry and building habitations and cities, roads and canals, seaports and fortifications. To quote Anderson [Edgar Anderson, Plants, Man, and Life:]
‘Unconsciously as well as deliberately man carries whole floras about the globe with him, he now lives surrounded by transported landscapes, and our commonest everyday plants have been transformed by their long associations with us so that many roadsides and dooryard plants are artifacts. An artifact, by definition, is something produced by man, something which we would not have if man had not come into being. That is what many of our weeds and crops really are.”
― Weeds in the Urban Landscape: Where They Come from, Why They're Here, and How to Live with Them
‘Unconsciously as well as deliberately man carries whole floras about the globe with him, he now lives surrounded by transported landscapes, and our commonest everyday plants have been transformed by their long associations with us so that many roadsides and dooryard plants are artifacts. An artifact, by definition, is something produced by man, something which we would not have if man had not come into being. That is what many of our weeds and crops really are.”
― Weeds in the Urban Landscape: Where They Come from, Why They're Here, and How to Live with Them
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