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This re-read is like a literary warm hug.

“There are no farms in the cities and suburbs where people live, and while on a drive through the country one now sees many farm buildings and relatively few animals out in the fields, how many of us can distinguish a storage barn from a broiler shed?”

This book is surprisingly wholesome

"Ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe."

“Expect the Unexpected.
And wherever possible,
BE the Unexpected.”

"Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely."

“In truth, the lives of most people have meaning only within the network of stories they tell one another.”

“If cognition’s basic features derive from gradual descent with modification, then notions of leaps, bounds, and sparks are out of order. Instead of a gap, we face a gently sloping beach created by the steady pounding of millions of waves. Even if human intellect is higher up on the beach, it was shaped by the same forces battering the same shore.”

“I am not for one moment disparaging the value of the rat as a subject for psychological investigation; there is very little wrong with the rat that cannot be overcome by the education of the experimenters.”

This story is making me so uncomfortable.