“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 to domesticate an environment. There is too often a deliberate rage and vengefulness at work in the assault on nature and its species, as if one would project onto the natural world the intolerable anxieties of… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share
“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
