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“It is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational.”

“‘Death is the mother of beauty,’ said Henry.
‘And what is beauty?’
‘Terror.’
‘Well said… beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.’”

“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one thing hurts along with one’s burned tongues and skinned knees, that one’s aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy”

“‘It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate’”

I’m so excited to start this book!!!

“Knowledge… more than ethics, is the key to good land stewardship.”

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“In the kind of country both you and I inhabit, ‘Its hardship is its possibility.’”

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“I now suspect that if we work with machines the world will seem to us to be a machine, but if we work with living creatures the world will appear to us a living creature.”

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“Industrial technology, instead of adapting itself to life, attempts to adapt life to itself by treating life as merely a mechanical or chemical process, and thus it inhibits the operation of love, imagination, familiarity, compassion, fear, and awe.”

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“To do no harm involves a whole culture and a culture very different from industrialism. It involves, at the minimum, compassion and humility and caution. The person who will undertake to help without doing harm is going to be a person of some complexity, not easily pleased, probably not a hero, probably not a billionaire.”

“If we find the consequences of our arrogant ignorance to be humbling, and we are humbled, then we have a hand the first fact of hope: We can change ourselves.”

“We are killing our world on the theory that it was never alive but is only an accidental concatenation of materials and mechanical processes. We are killing one another and ourselves on the same theory.”

“‘We cannot imagine how the world might appear if we did not possess the groundwork of knowledge which we do possess; nor can we in the nature of things imagine how reality would appear in the light of knowledge which we do not possess.’”

“Ignorance plus arrogance plus greed sponsors ‘better living with chemistry,’ and produces the ozone hole and the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.”

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“‘Every man for himself’ is a doctrine for a feeding frenzy or for a panic in a burning nightclub, appropriate for sharks or hogs or perhaps a cascade of lemmings. A society wishing to endure must speak the language of care-taking, faith-keeping, kindness, neighborliness, and peace. That language is another precious resource that cannot be ‘privatized’”

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“Creatures who have armed themselves with the power of limitless destruction should not be following any way laid out by their limited knowledge and their unseemly pride in it.”

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