We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us. Kim Stanley More Quotes by Kim Stanley More Quotes From Kim Stanley Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever. Kim Stanley latitude common-sense law Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. Kim Stanley analogies historical people Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back Kim Stanley breaths given giving The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening. Kim Stanley climbing adventure funny Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting. Kim Stanley life-is desire trying First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart. Kim Stanley falling-in-love heart firsts You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you). Kim Stanley your-children childhood happens Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant. Kim Stanley accepting people thinking We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it’s all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and we’ll be here, and we’ll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces. Kim Stanley land cities sky Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind. Kim Stanley rocks light clouds An excess of reason is itself a form of madness Kim Stanley excess madness reason None of us know our real names. Kim Stanley real names knows The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. Kim Stanley matter people thinking Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape Kim Stanley cognition landscape logic Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair. Kim Stanley patterns despair defense Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance. Kim Stanley kind together mean In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold. Kim Stanley taken use world We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably. Kim Stanley powerful conscious earth Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act. Kim Stanley answers too-late needs Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly. Kim Stanley technology people needs
