February 2012
“The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. Not only is there an impoverishment of...”
– Joanna Macy (via wildisms)
“I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow...”
– Anais Nin (via thememoryofacolor)
“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they...”
– Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923 (via e-a-r-t-h)
“It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present...”
– Sherrilyn Kenyon (via elige)
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his...”
– Nelson Mandela (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Pre-cybernetic machines could be haunted; there was always the specter of the...”
– Donna J. Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp. 149-181. (via saidtotheuniverse) (via womenandanimalsnotebook
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“Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. (via thebloomsburygroup
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“When you see the utter perfection in everything - not just those things with...”
– Neale Donald Walsch (via oceanofmind)
“People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via funeral)
“This sexualization does not come without consequences. By marketing adult...”
– Jessica Valenti in “Sex sells — even to kids: Racy clothing for preteens is sending a troubling and dangerous message.” (via petitefeministe)
“The importance of animals in nature-society relations rest in their own right...”
– Cloke P and Perkins HC (2005) Cetacean performance and tourism in Kaikoura, New Zealand. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23:903-924
(via geogthoughts)
“People often tend to misrecognise as ‘natural’ the settings that have been...”
– Kay Anderson (1995) Culture and nature at the Adelaide Zoo: at the frontiers of ‘human’ geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 20:275-294 (via geogthoughts
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“I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t...”
– Henry Rollins (via thechocolatebrigade)
