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Kim Stanley Robinson _ Sixty Days and Counting
Hikes in the winter forest, so surreal-Emerson knew about them. He had seen the woods at twilight. "Never was a more brilliant show of colored landscape than yesterday afternoon; incredibly excellent topaz and ruby at four o'clock; cold and shabby at six.
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Kim Stanley Robinson _ Sixty Days and Counting
We cannot trifle with this reality, this cropping-out in our planted gardens of the core of the world. No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity which, by many experiments, he touches on every side until he learns its arc.
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Kim Stanley Robinson _ Sixty Days and Counting
I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort." -The Dalai Lama,
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Kim Stanley Robinson _ Sixty Days and Counting
He says, "We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. Try to be at peace with yourself, and help others share that peace. If you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning of life.
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Kim Stanley Robinson _ Sixty Days and Counting
A major part of sustainability is social justice, here and everywhere. Think of it this way: justice is a technology. It's like a software program that we use to cope with the world and get along with each other, and one of the most effective we have ever invented, because we are all in this together. When you realize that acting with justice and generosity turns out to be the most effective technology for dealing with other people, that's a good thing.
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Kim Stanley Robinson _ Sixty Days and Counting
We have to start doing this in ignorance of the details of how to do it. We have to learn how to do it in the attempt itself. It is something we are going to have to imagine.
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Kim Stanley Robinson _ Sixty Days and Counting
Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape
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Kim Stanley Robinson _ Sixty Days and Counting
All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.
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