It grew in the dark, it’s a stack, a hyperobject, an accidental megastructure. No
I see the hills look odd too. Not tectonic action, nor rain, nor riverbeds, nor glaciers, nor wind shaped these hills. They are uncanny. You can see something is different here, and it’s hard not to f...
He stood and walked to her. Beside her a bucket stood on the sand, filled with the little silver fish from the previous night. She gestured at the bucket, offering him some of the fish, and he saw tha...
Consciousness is the hard problem.
Capital itself is simply the useful residue of the work of past laborers, and it could belong to everyone as well as to a few.
But it could lead to trouble. Is a few minutes’ passion worth that? It is, it is. Believe me.
And yet the whole meaning of the universe, its beauty, is contained in the consciousness of intelligent life. We are the consciousness of the universe, and our job is to spread that around, to go look...
And the old ones were burly people, as strong as bears or wolverines. One of Thorn’s stories told how an old one had married a bear by mistake, and neither of them had noticed; their daughter told the...
All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.
You have to fight not only against what you hate, but for what you love, you see?
We were outside the world, we didn't even own things -- some clothes. . . . This arrangement resembles the prehistoric way to live, and it therefore feels right to us, because our brains recognize it...
The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.
Take this moment right here, and ask yourself, What is now lacking?
People have ideas. They live in their ideas, do you understand? And those ideas, whatever they happen to be, make all the difference.
Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.
Memory is a haunting.
It is a form of grace to become nothing but a task-Hjalmar Nederland from Kim Stanley Robinson's Icehenge
If our government tries to back the banks instead of us, then we elect a different government. We pretend that democracy is real, and that will make it real.
Galileo did not want to agree. He never wanted to agree; agreeing was something other people did, with him, after they had disagreed.
Becoming a shaman is a fate that can strike anyone. Even you.