He liked it for its modesty among the bigger efforts. Like a human soul should be in the world, among elephants, galaxies.
“in human affairs everything is hastiness and farewell.”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
“If you wish to listen for sounds so faint they may not exist at all, you can’t have someone playing the drums in your ear. To hear the breath of the birth of the universe, you must come below ground to what are, experimentally speaking, among the quietest places in the universe.”
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
“How closely our lives drift past other lives; how narrowly we become ourselves and not some adjacent other, someone both near at hand and much too far away.”
― Biography of X
― Biography of X
“In the language of forestry and forest ecology, the ‘understorey’ is the name given to the life that exists between the forest floor and the tree canopy: the fungi, mosses, lichens, bushes and saplings that thrive and compete in this mid-zone. Metaphorically, though, the ‘understorey’ is also the sum of the entangled, ever-growing narratives, histories, ideas and words that interweave to give a wood or forest its diverse life in culture.”
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
“The burden of getting older was borne alone,”
― Old God's Time
― Old God's Time
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