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Tears of Amber by Sofía Segovia

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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their ...more

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“Wolves and humans can understand each other better. That’s one reason why we invited wolves, instead of chimpanzees, into our lives. Wolves and dogs and us; it’s not surprising that we found one another. We deserve one another. We were made for one another.”
― Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

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“our view of ourselves as postevolutionary, purely cultural creatures, standing outside of selective pressures and in control of our fate is wrong. We tend to think that humans evolved, then stopped evolving and started culture. Far from it. The onset of agriculture and the flowering cultures of civilization were themselves enormous changes in the human environment, massively altering selective pressures. Pressures to maintain a hunter’s size and strength and senses relaxed, while pressure to behave cooperatively, expand social skills, and suppress violent urges intensified.”
― Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

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“It’s been said that no two species are more alike than wolves and humans. If you watch wolves not just in all their beauty and adaptability but in all their brutality, it’s hard to escape that conclusion. Living as we do in family packs, fending off the human wolves among us, managing the wolves within us, we can easily recognize in real wolves their social dilemmas and their status quests. No wonder Native Americans saw wolves as a sibling spirit.”
― Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

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“Darwin coined the term “natural selection” because he was comparing the mechanics of what happens in nature with the artificial selection applied in raising livestock. But nature doesn’t really select; it filters. The environment works as a filter, and as the environment changes, it filters differently. The point is: as the pressures change, we remain a work in progress. Look at the evolving creature in the mirror. Realize that we’ve got a ways to go before we’re universally as good to one another, or as much fun with one another, as are bonobos.”
― Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

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“Climbing, it turns out, is a nearly perfect vehicle for flow, which may be one of the reasons it has become so popular. For the climber, the goal may be to successfully climb a difficult rock pitch without falling. It is a meaningful, challenging goal that requires skill and focused attention because you will fall off if you fail to hang on. It provides immediate feedback. For the free-solo climber, who chooses to climb the pitch without a rope or protection, the goal is even more meaningful and challenging and requires even more intense focus. The feedback is also starkly clear and immediate—you don’t just fall if you fail to hang on; you probably die.”
― Jeff Smoot, All and Nothing: Inside Free Soloing

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