“Our basic human institutions - religion, matrimony, and burial, also law, language, literature, and whatever else relies on the transmission of legacy - are authored, always and from the very start, by those who cam before. The awareness of death… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Human beings, in other words, are always already dead. This proleptic knowledge of finitude predetermines their most creative as well as their most destructive… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“And nothing . . . disquiets a rationalist more than a forest.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Soul and habitat--we are finally in a position to know this--are correlates of one another.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“The destructive impulse with respect to nature all too often has psychological causes that go beyond the greed for material resource or the need… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Our basic human institutions - religion, matrimony, and burial, also law, language, literature, and whatever else relies on the transmission of legacy - are… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“When I’m critical of modern approaches to ecology, I’m really trying to remind my reader of the long relationship that Western civilization has had… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Walls protect, divide, distinguish; above all they abstract . The basic activities that sustain life . . . take place beyond walls.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
