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" We're all human beings, in the end, despite our differences. "

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" I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work. "

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" We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that you've realised that you're stuck in something, and you have this kind of uncanny awareness of that, and there's not much you can do about that feeling of stuckness. "

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" Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes. "

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" My mates Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe have put together thirty one episodes of a really really nice podcast at Rice as part of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The 'Cultures of Energy Podcast' is so good! "

" The ideal job letter starts with a brilliant light. Then we realize that this brilliant light is actually sunlight, shafts of it, pouring through trees onto a thick bed of pine needles. Soft dusty resin floats in the sun shafts, invitingly. The smell of pine and sap rises from the forest floor. A twig snaps underfoot. "

" Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there's too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I might have some problems. If there's too little, I might have some problems. There's a sort of dynamic system there. "

" Being seen means that your being is held by the other person without comment, without praise or blame or indifference - just with some kind of open care. "

" It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high. "

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" I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty. "

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