“I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.” WorldYearsLooksSeemsEyeCoupleCivilizationOne DayHundredBuiltYears AgoChecksHotelOur SocietyCustomsTemporaryConcreteApocalypse Book:Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it Source: Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it
“The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.” ThinkingKnowsMenDoePoorRichHe ManFoolHundredBuiltFancyWagonsTimber Author:Hesiod
“Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.” YearsLongTwoWholeTogetherGuyFineHundredShotsBuiltYears AgoInstitutionsWigsTuningLong ShotsFine Tuning Author:Terence McKenna
“Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The was of nature upon machines, of the planet's chaotic forces upon the works of humankind. The energy that man had pulled from the earth was being inexorably pulled back into it, sucked like water down a drain. Before long, if it hadn't happened already, not a single high-tension pole would be left standing on the earth. Mankind had built a world that would take a hundred years to die. A century for the last light to go out.” IfsMenWorldYearsLongLightWould BeEarthLastsDiesEnergyLeftForceWaterHappenedMankindCenturyPlanetsWindHundredBuiltRainStandingMachinesTeethTensionHumankindMiceInsectsDroppingChaoticDrainsRustDevouringNibbling Author:Justin Cronin
“It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the teeth of the most terrifying odds achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity You come from a long line of great poets some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said "The very time I thought I was lost My dungeon shook and my chains fell off." You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you James and Godspeed.” KnowsMenYearsLongSaidCountryHardLostLinesPoetHundredBuiltRiversDignityTeethCelebrateChainsBlessOddsPeasantsGod BlessCottonRailroadsDungeonsGreat PoetSturdyLong LinesGod Bless You Author:James A. Baldwin