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"Success is overrated. Everyone craves it despite daily proof that man's real genius lies in quite the opposite direction. Incompetence is what we are good at: it is the quality that marks us off from animals and we should learn to revere it."

"I am sure that I am not the only one who cannot do things and the slightest investigation reveals that no one else can do anything either."

Triggered my claustrophobia, but worth it for the vivid nature descriptions and the fantastic places this book explores. Constantly flitting through landscapes, history, literature, science and reflections on the anthropocene and its geological legacy makes for insightful and focused reading.

Take the time that needs to be taken.

"Philip Larkin famously said that what will survive us is love. Wrong. What will survive us is plastic, swine bones and lead-207, the stable isotope at the end of the uranium-235 decay chain."