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“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
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“What shocks me so is the detachment with which we dispense destruction -- not just bombs, but blows to the head of the earth, to populations of insects, plants, and animals, and to one another with senseless betrayal -- and how the proposed solutions are always mechanistic, as if we could fabricate the health of the planet the way we make a new car.”
― Islands, the Universe, Home
― Islands, the Universe, Home
“When you consider life as a whole, intelligence is a mere bristle on the hog.”
― A Year in the Maine Woods
― A Year in the Maine Woods
“Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.”
― The Places in Between
― The Places in Between
“Steep curving stone stairs led to a square library on the floor above. The 4,000 books in the library were mostly collected between 1710 and 1730. ... For a moment I was tempted to ask to be locked in. If I could skim ten books a day for a year, I would be able to get a sense of most of what David Hume might have read in 1730 -- an age when it still might just have been possible to read everything.”
― The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland – A Profound Father-Son Memoir of Historical Reflection and Heritage
― The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland – A Profound Father-Son Memoir of Historical Reflection and Heritage
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