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“We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the r...”
“It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the unive...”
“I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.”
“Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. ”
“Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners”
“He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would alwa...”
“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”
“One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.”
“One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.”
“. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of i...”
“If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.”
“There are such repulsive faces in the world.”
“Life is the most effective school ever created. Once upon a time they made children bow their heads and read books. It would take ages to get anything across." He taps his head. "But we have widget...”
“Abby began to think that all the beauty and ugliness and turbulence one found scattered through nature, one could also find in people themselves, all collected there, all together in a single place...”
“Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a ...”
“There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. (...) However bad life may seem (...) While theres life, there is hope.”
“She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant ...”
“People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.”
“Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no longer seek each other as opposites, but simply as members of a...”
“All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.”
