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“Chronicling the passage of whales has led me to an understanding that we, as a species, now sand at a crossroads. We can face the possibility of our own extinction and work to avert it, or we can flow the more traditional path of earths organisms and fall blindly over the edge. If there's one trait that characterised human beings, it's the will to survive. This, I believe, will motivate us to work with the natural world rather than opposite it, which is all we need to do to give the children of earth - of all species - the opportunity to thrive.”
― Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us
― Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us
“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance, you cannot kill a dream or an ambition. God, manufactured by mortals in their own quintessential image, exists only to make daily life bearable despite the path that every one of us treads toward extinction. As long as men are obliged to die, some of them, unable to endure the prospect, will concoct fond illusions.We cannot assassinate or kill an illusion. In fact, illusion is more likely to kill us — for God puts to death everything that stands up to him, beginning with reason, intelligence, and the critical mind. All the rest follows in a chain reaction.”
― Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
― Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
“To walk attentively through a forest, even a damaged one, is to be caught by the abundance of life: ancient and new; underfoot and reaching into the light. But how does one tell the life of the forest? We might begin by looking for drama and adventure beyond the activities of humans. Yet we are not used to reading stories without human heroes. This is the puzzle that informs this section of the book. Can I show landscape as the protagonist of an adventure in which humans are only one kind of participant? Over the past few decades many kinds of scholars have shown that allowing only human protagonists into our stories is not just ordinary human bias. It is a cultural agenda tied to dreams of progress through modernization. There are other ways of making worlds. Anthropologists have become interested, for example, in how substance hunters recognize other living beings as persons, that is protagonists of stories. Indeed, how could it be otherwise? Yet expectations of progress block this insight. Talking animals are for children and primitives. Their voices silent, we imagine wellbeing without them. We trample over them for our advancement. We forget that collaborative survival requires cross-species coordinations. To enlarge what is possible we need other kinds of stories, including adventures of landscapes.”
― The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
― The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
“Orcas may not be very intelligent humans, but humans are really stupid orcas”
― Of Orcas and Men: Blend of science and activism arguing orcas reveal the cost of human exploitation.
― Of Orcas and Men: Blend of science and activism arguing orcas reveal the cost of human exploitation.
“Dio promette la vita eterna” disse Eldritch. “Io posso fare di meglio; posso metterla in commercio.”
― The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
― The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
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