"There is no transcendent creator in animism, no god who set the clocks ticking and decides which ones to fix when they falter; nothing exists outside of nature. In other words, my philosophy does not require that I believe in something I cannot experience directly."

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Source : Emma Restall Orr (2012). “The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature”, p.3, John Hunt Publishing

Emma Restall Orr

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“Wickedness may prosper for a while.”
“Dancers donâ€™t think about things; they just do them.”
“It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.”

Source : "Lady Ashton - once 'Lady who?', now the EU's diplomatic secret weapon" by Anne Perkins, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2013.
“Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.”
“If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.”
“Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I've got in my hand and rub it into his face. That's how much I like him.”
“When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for a while, and that doesn't mean we don't know that a warmer world will have less sea ice. It just means there's a lot of variability and people can pay too much attention to the big swings in one direction or the other.”

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