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When I was little, July had been my favorite month. Nothing unusual about that, it was the simplest, most carefree of months, with its long days full of light and warmth. Then, when I became a teenager, it was the autumn I’d liked, the
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“[David Starr Jordan] claims that salvation lies in the electricity of our bodies. “Happiness comes from doing, helping, working, loving, fighting, conquering,” he writes in a syllabus from around the same time, “from the exercise of functions; from self-activity.” Don’t overthink it, I think, is his point. Enjoy the journey. Savor the small things. The “luscious” taste of a peach, the “lavish” colors of tropical fish, the rush from exercise that allows one to experience “the stern joy which warriors feel.”
― Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
― Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
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“Scientists have discovered, it's true, that employing positive illusions will help you achieve your goals. But I have slowly come to believe that far better things await outside of the tunnel vision of your goals.”
― Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
― Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
“Any idiot could see that what that child needed was space, not some overbearing helicopter mom without a life to call her own. It’s no wonder she went to another state to get away from you. How else was she supposed to escape your endless prattle?”
― The Lonely Hearts Book Club
― The Lonely Hearts Book Club
“But perhaps the most damning argument came from nature herself. Had David followed his own advice to look to nature for truth, he would have seen it. This dazzling, feathery, squawking, gurgling mound of counterevidence. Animals can outperform humans on nearly every measure supposedly associated with our superiority. There are crows that have better memories than us, chimps with better pattern-recognition skills, ants that rescue their wounded, and blood flukes with higher rates of monogamy. When you actually examine the range of life on Earth, it takes a lot of acrobatics to sort it into a single hierarchy with humans at the top. We don’t have the biggest brain or the best memory. We’re not the fastest or the strongest or the most prolific. We’re not the only ones that mate for life, that show altruism, use tools, language. We don’t have the most copies of genes in circulation. We aren’t even the newest creation on the block.”
― Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
― Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
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