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Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

“Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.”

Book:When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

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When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

This collection of poetry delves into the diverse narratives and perspectives of women across different eras, reflecting on themes of identity, resilience, and the human condition. more

Author

Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams is an American author known for her profound insights into the relationship between humans and nature. Her works often explore themes such as environmental protection, feminism, and identity. more

“Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they take decisions that pay off. The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable approximation.”

Science Evolutionary Biology

Book:The Selfish Gene

Source: The Selfish Gene

“In this era of global capital triumphant, to keep responsibility alive in the reading and teaching of the textual is at first sight impractical. It is, however, the right of the textual to be so responsible, responsive, answerable. The “planet” is, here, as perhaps always, a catachresis for inscribing collective responsibility as right. Its alterity, determining experience, is mysterious and discontinuous—an experience of the impossible. It is such collectivities that must be opened up with the question “How many are we?” when cultural origin is detranscendentalized into fiction—the toughest task in the diaspora.”

Globalization Planet Alterity Spivak Planetarity

Author:Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

“The sounds of my breaths slowly begin to fade away, and I can hear again the waves in the darkness. The waves again! Reverberating through a hollow tube. Focus inward, and ignore the sound! Ignore the cause. Think not upon the cause of that cause or upon that cause’s cause’s cause. There is more than we will ever be able to explain. More than I will ever know and observe, and thus our systems are riddled with gaps.”

Breathing Causality Deus Absconditus

Book:trenches parallax leapfrog

Source: trenches parallax leapfrog

“To solve, make or change the objects or rules, to gain the power for misusing that, the result will not be fruitful, and the history will endorse shame. Using the mind and the heart is the best option to meet the success and receive appreciation for a beautiful remembrance.”