Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘That’s like all the cocaine I sniffed. ’
Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.
Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.
The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.
Celebrate your existence!
Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject.
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation