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““The sound of trees comes from all sides. From leaves, branches, roots… If you put your ear to my trunk, you can hear my heartbeat.””
My Sweet Orange Tree • José Mauro de Vasconcelos“What are the choices that we must make if we are now to succeed, and not to fail? [...] Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial to tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection, we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives. One of those choices has depended on the courage to practice long-term thinking, and to make bold, courageous, anticipatory decisions at a time when problems have become perceptible but before they have reached crisis proportions. [...] The other crucial choice illuminated by the past involves the courage to make painful decisions about values. Which of the values that formerly served a society well can continue to be maintained under new changed circumstances? Which of these treasured values must instead be jettisoned and replaced with different approaches?”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.”
Future Shock • Alvin Toffler“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”
Master Humphrey's Clock • Charles Dickens“It needs to realize that what happens to everyone—bad and good alike—is neither good nor bad. (Hays translation)”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius