"All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long circle back toward their former coherence. Whether they can arrive before the natural world is damaged beyond repair and madness destroys humanity, we cannot tell."

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Source : Paul Shepard (2013). “Coming Home to the Pleistocene”, p.170, Island Press

Paul Shepard

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“From Wall Street to Drive was almost a year, when I didn't do anything 'cause there was just nothing that was significantly different from the things I'd done before. There was just nothing to explore.”
“We must look at ourselves with the strictest eyes.”
“I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.”

Source : Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.
“I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.”
“I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.”
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”
“I’m sure a lot of you have tripped out on alcohol. It’s a lot safer to do it on marijuana”
“Nothing I've done is like anything else I've done before.”

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