"Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive."

-- Paul Fry

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“I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.”
“It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.”

Source : David Holmgren (2012). “Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change”, p.115, Chelsea Green Publishing
“You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.”
“And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you...”
“With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted, I trust my inner eye, the heart. Everything, absolutely everything, becomes visible. Appearances, disappearances, nothing seems of secondary importance to me.”
“Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.”
“Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone.”
“I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.”

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