Robert Pogue Harrison

“Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“Human beings, in other words, are always already dead. This proleptic knowledge of finitude predetermines their most creative as well as their…

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“And nothing . . . disquiets a rationalist more than a forest.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“Soul and habitat--we are finally in a position to know this--are correlates of one another.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“The destructive impulse with respect to nature all too often has psychological causes that go beyond the greed for material resource or…

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“Our basic human institutions - religion, matrimony, and burial, also law, language, literature, and whatever else relies on the transmission of legacy…

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“When I’m critical of modern approaches to ecology, I’m really trying to remind my reader of the long relationship that Western civilization…

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“Decadence begins with the loss of restraint.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“Walls protect, divide, distinguish; above all they abstract . The basic activities that sustain life . . . take place beyond walls.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison