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“Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas.”

Source: The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems

“If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question, and thereby begging the real one.”

“Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.”

Men Needs Force Loss Grief Fire Objects Circumstances Tests Absolutes Endure Absence Separation Beloved Indifference Crucible Grief Loss

Book:Max

Source: Max

“In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.”

Left Natural Loss Absence Disaster Devices Uneasy Natural Disaster

Book:The White Album

Source: The White Album

“When we don't get that escape from our work selves, I think we feel its absence on a deep, almost primal level. Leisure is uncommodified, unoccupied time where we get to be truly free, so feeling bad about missing the weekend isn't just, "Damn, I didn't make it to the mall!" It's a profound loss.”

Thinking Feelings Loss Missing Profound Absence Weekend Feeling Bad

Author:Katrina Onstad

“Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

“And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers”

Loss Flower Flow Absence

Book:The Tent

Source: The Tent

“...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.”

People Needs Mind Moments Stories Seems My Own Loss Novel Taken Pages Understood Lonely Stranger Absence Ghost Confused That Moment Refuge My Own Life Lonely People

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”

Knows Inspirational Should Enough Realizing Loss Missing Huge Absence Holes Missing Someone Evermore

Book:The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland

Source: The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland

“What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.”

Might Would Be Loss Painting Absence

Book:The Shape of a Pocket

Source: The Shape of a Pocket