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“Puesto que se enteraría por su propia experiencia de que el jardín era el perfeccionamiento supremo de la idea del jardín, ya que la mejor forma de definirlo era afirmar que su creador había "alcanzado la simplicidad", al tratarse de un jardín, escribía el autor con notable apasionamiento, que expresaba lo infinitamente simple mediante fuerzas infinitamente complejas.”
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“Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.”
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“Why are fewer and fewer young Americans going into science each year?' I told him that the young were impressed by the war crimes trials at Nuremberg. They were afraid that careers in science could all too easily lead to the commission of war crimes. They don't want to work on the development of new weapons. Thet don't want to make discoveries which will lead to improved weapons. They don't want to work for corporations that pollute water or atmosphere or raid the public treasury. So they go into other fields. They become physicists who are so virtuous they don't go into physics at all.”
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“As soon as we label something as "natural", we attach to it the powerful implication that any change from its current state would degrade and damage the way it is "supposed" to be.”
― Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
― Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
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