"In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life - the plants and animals that inhabit the earth - has evolved merely to regulate the chemistry of the biosphere. Humans are insignificant participants, far less important to the life cycle than termites. Even the imbalance that we have created by adding massive quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere may be brought back to acceptable levels by other organisms functioning in their capacity to correct excesses."

Source : David Easton (2007). “The Rammed Earth House”, p.54, Chelsea Green Publishing

David Easton

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“I like being a consumer. I'll do collabs with brands I like, only because I would like something free to wear. But I don't want people to dress like me, which is what you're asking when you create a brand. The fashion industry's just a super-duper headache.”
“I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.27, Grove Press
“The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.”

Source : "The Internet is not a medium". Hyperorg.com, March 27, 2004.
“Michael Phelps is a good friend of mine, so I'm very supportive of him.”
“Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Source : G. V. WIGRAM, E. L. Bevir, John Nelson Darby, C. H. Mackintosh, C. E. Stuart (2015). “The Christian's Friend and Instructor: Christian Magazine Volume 24, 1897 Edition”, p.72, Irving Risch
“Without philosophy, action has no meaning.”
“Being the â€œbest you can beâ€ is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.”
“I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.”

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