Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration. 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 pretty concepts accord beauty 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 present call like mist 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 job rejection letters years 'Humankind' is an attempt to think the human species without Nature and without humanity. Timothy Morton human think nature humanity 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 look you nature tree You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement. Timothy Morton afraid how you believe Inevitably, ecological awareness has this kind of '70s flavour to it. Timothy Morton inevitably ecological awareness kind I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine. Timothy Morton myself like think you 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 precious without like i-can I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality. Timothy Morton believe reality way art
