Artur Benchimol

“To do nothing is to hold yourself still so that you can perceive what is actually there. As Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist who records natural soundscapes, put it: “Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“The distinction between evil and error is not always clear, and this isn’t the place to explore the distinction. What is important is that error is likely to require as much effort for rectification as evil. Redemption can follow either, for redemption is an ecological reality that must very early have become a religious notion, for whether ignorance or greed leads to overgrazing of a hillside, the result is the same. The hillside can be redeemed, probably not completely, probably not very soon, but eventually and to some degree.”
― Wes Jackson, Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson

“Optimism and pessimism are not arguments. They are opposite forms of the same surrender to simplicity. Relieved of the burden of complex options with complicated consequences, both optimists and pessimists carry on without caring about the consequences of their actions.”
― Wes Jackson, Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson

“[c]aring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy