Jepa

“For every island is a canoe, and all the earth is an island, living by the grace of the immense and slowly turning blue creature.”
― Richard Powers, Playground

“What does it look like? Call it what it is. Every dance is a game, and every game its own best explanation. Everything alive, even we newcomers. . . . What are all creatures—even me—doing at all times but playing in the world, playing before their tinkering Lord?”
― Richard Powers, Playground

“On an intellectual level we're well aware of it, of course, the fact that we're all going to die one day. But it's the work of a lifetime to allow that knowledge and insight to sink down from our brains to the rest of us. And it's worth the effort.”
― Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, I May Be Wrong: And Other Wisdoms From Life as a Forest Monk

“We think we’re the wind, but we’re just the leaf. And isn’t it strange, how everything we do in our capacity as humans only asserts us more as the animals we are. Aren’t we so insecure a species that we’re forever gazing at ourselves and trying to ascertain what makes us different. We great ingenious curious beings who pioneer into space and change the future, when really the only thing humans can do that other animals cannot is start fire from nothing. That seems to be the only thing–and, granted, it’s changed everything, but all the same. We’re a few flint-strikes ahead of everything else, that’s it. Chimps could do it if they watched us and learned, and before you know it they’d be gathering around fires and migrating to colder climes and cooking their food, and what do you know.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital