“For humans, there is ultimately no way out of the obligations and limitations of nature. We are nature. And so, like history, the climate is both something that happens to us and something we make.”
Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“Even though speculation is correct only by chance, which means it is wrong at least 50% of the time, nobody remembers and therefore nobody cares. People do not remember yesterday, let alone last week, or last month. Media exists in the eternal now, this minute, this crisis, this talking head, this column, this speculation.”
Source: State of Fear
“I hate violence - you know why, because I'm afraid - terribly afraid – every single minute of my existence - I'm afraid of myself - I'm afraid of my own rage - I'm afraid, that if I raise my hand at someone, there won't be any trace of them left.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“... but people often took offense, no matter how gently he tried to explain.”
Source: Honeymoon for One
“God’s original name is Human, but it isn’t very profitable, so the apes cook up fancy names, and sprinkle in tales of magic.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Most people are robots-executors, not very much unlike animals. They are not even aware of the true motives of their behavior. They make the majority among simples, and among vors, and among outs. On the other hand, there is a minority, robots-rulers, who are aware of themselves, of the motives of their actions, and are able to control them to a certain extent. This is the only real freedom available to people.”
Source: The Outside Intervention
“You need to be smart enough to ask stupid questions.”
“One who is whole is human, all others are imitation.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Humans are a strange bunch. We like to be alone together.”
Source: Gates of Mars
“The three of them and the five of us, we are as weather is upon the planet. I breathe them and they breathe me. Clouds and breezes, lightning strikes and claps of thunder, we are the land, the air, the motion of existence, confirmed by sound and light and change.”
Source: The Cosmos of Amie Martine