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“...imagination forms part of the everyday business of inquiring.”
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“Every time I was around them, they acted like I was a monster. So I said goddamnit, I'll be the worst monster you ever saw!”
― The Ballad of Black Tom
― The Ballad of Black Tom
“What's astonishing is the gulf between what we expect to find and what we find when we actually look.”
― Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
― Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
“I think of all the complicated histories that landscapes have, and how easy it is to wipe them away, put easier, safer histories in their place.”
― H is for Hawk
― H is for Hawk
“Sensing can feel passive, as if eyes and other sense organs were just intake valves through which animals absorb and receive the stimuli around them. But over time, the simple act of seeing recolors the world. Guided by evolution, eyes are living paintbrushes. Flowers, frogs, fish, feathers and fruit all show that sight affects what is seen and that much of what we find beautiful in nature has been shaped by the vision of our fellow animals. Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder, it arises because of that eye.”
― An Immense World By Ed Yong, The Green New Deal [Hardcover] By Jeremy Rifkin 2 Books Collection Set
― An Immense World By Ed Yong, The Green New Deal [Hardcover] By Jeremy Rifkin 2 Books Collection Set
Lee Ellen’s 2025 Year in Books
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