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“On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind’s prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer’s vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources andContinue reading “Quote Of The Week”

Quote Of The Week

I rather like this one. “The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage.The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.” ― Arthur Ransome

Quote Of The Week

This week’s quote is an anonymous poem written in the 1600’s as part of England’s anti-enclosure movement.

Quote Of The Week

“Theory is like a scaffolding that you build up around the organism so that you can better observe its architecture and basic design. But after the organism has been revealed, the scaffolding is no longer terribly relevant.” Bernd Heinrich, Ravens In Winter

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The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein

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Hey, farmer, farmerPut away the DDT nowGive me spots on my applesBut leave me the birds and the bees, please Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi

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“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.” ― Jimmy Carter

Quote Of The Week

I’ve just started reading The War Within: Diaries From The Siege Of Leningrad by Alexis Peri and I’m constantly struck by how what we’re going though now with COVID19 is a siege and how the thinking and internal struggles of Leningrad’ers, and others who have been though sieges, mirrors our current experience. “Rocco Coronato hasContinue reading “Quote Of The Week”

Quote Of The Week

“My son, like a lot of people, like a lot of people you know at home, had a drug problem. He’s overtaken it. He’s fixed it. He’s worked on it. And I’m proud of him. I’m proud of my son.” Joe Biden And on a personal note: O’ fuck yes. Drug addiction is a mentalContinue reading “Quote Of The Week”