Best Kim Stanley Quotes
- Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance. Conversation
- In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor… Accumulates
- We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and… Conceive
- The command to be free is a double bind Bind
- Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The… Angle
- Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since Been
- It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. Century
- It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again. All
- It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through… Accordingly
- The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. Arguing
- We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us. Blank
- None of us know our real names. Inspirational
- Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation. End
- It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams. Bad
- Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting. All
- The invisible hand never picks up the check. Check