"Nature is not our enemy, to be raped……" — Terence McKenna
"Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored."
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202 Quotes by Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna has 202 quotes on this site.
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We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the…
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Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no…
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Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
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There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of…
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We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
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Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
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I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind…
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LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We…
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to…
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History is rooted in the future
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What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete…
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More Cherished Quotes
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness…
— Margaret Atwood
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Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed.…
— Roseanne Barr
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I…
— Orlando Bloom
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'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best…
— Winston Churchill
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Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
— Thomas Aquinas
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A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
— George Eliot
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It feels amazing - really, really great! It was so nice to be out there and be cherished by all…
— Unknown Author
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
— Bertrand Russell
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Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him…
— David Jeremiah
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