Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me? Timothy Morton More Quotes by Timothy Morton More Quotes From Timothy Morton Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.' Timothy Morton prettyconceptsaccordbeauty The present is haunted by the X-present. I call this manifold of present and X-present 'nowness': a shifting, haunted region like evaporating mist; a region can't be tied to a specific timescale. Timothy Morton presentcalllikemist I used to keep a folder with all my rejection letters in it - a few years into having a job, I burned it. Timothy Morton jobrejectionlettersyears 'Humankind' is an attempt to think the human species without Nature and without humanity. Timothy Morton humanthinknaturehumanity When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement. Timothy Morton lookyounaturetree You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement. Timothy Morton afraidhowyoubelieve Inevitably, ecological awareness has this kind of '70s flavour to it. Timothy Morton inevitablyecologicalawarenesskind I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine. Timothy Morton myselflikethinkyou I can get quite well known, and then I can unleash this kind of anarchist-hippie thing that I've been holding like a very precious liquid, carefully, without spilling any, for years and years and years. And now I'm going to pour it everywhere. Timothy Morton preciouswithoutlikei-can I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality. Timothy Morton believerealitywayart
