Kim Stanley Robinson

“And with our work,” John continued, “we are carving out a new social order and the next step in the human story”—i.e.,…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Now as Daly said, man-made capital and natural capital are not substitutable. This is obvious, but since most economists say they are…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“What was worry, after all, but a kind of fear? It was fear for the future. And in fact the future was…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

— Kim Stanley Robinson

The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Chinese Buddhism was the natural study of reality, and led to feelings of devotion just from noting the daily leaves, the colors…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics,…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“bubbles and Ponzi schemes and capitalism all have to keep growing or else they are in deep shit.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“And the unequal accumulation of wealth by the elites continued.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own.…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“It takes courage to keep love at the center when you know just as well as anyone else the real state of…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“here’s the genuine thoughtfulness and deep consideration for sake of truth and meaningful understanding. There’s the recognition that if there were simple…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“We were outside the world, we didn't even own things -- some clothes. . . . This arrangement resembles the prehistoric way…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“But things change as time passes; nothing lasts, not even stone, not even happiness.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“We live in a world where people pretend money can buy you anything, so money becomes the point, so we all work…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Possibly this formulation itself is the deep diagnostic of all human cognition—the tell, as they say, meaning the thing that tells, the…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“These new taxes and the nationalization of finance meant the U.S. government would soon be dealing with a healthy budget surplus. Universal…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“I’m told finance doesn’t require very complicated math. One guy told me that if you just designed a clean data display, people…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“no extinctions from this point onward are inevitable (this has always been true, however) 19,340”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing. You could put your bishop out there to mate the…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

— Kim Stanley Robinson