Mauricio Ortega

“We’ve learned a little about a few of them, in isolation. But nothing is less isolated or more social than a tree.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Los árboles ya no crecerían desde su voz. Hoy, ella dejaría de ser todo el paisaje y toda la ciudad, para ser sólo otro individuo en la ciudad y otra mancha en el paisaje.”
― José Donoso, Este domingo

“I am not by any means wholly opposed to the ideas involved, though i think that these are more naturally expressed in another way.”
― Arthur Tansley

“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.”
― Kurt Vonnegut