"If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but would instead place the naked body in the earth and plant a tree above the silent heart."

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Source : William Irwin Thompson (1978). “Darkness and Scattered Light: Four Talks on the Future”, Anchor Books

William Irwin Thompson

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