104 Quotes

“Trying to design or reclaim places is, therefore, rather like trying to make or modify life itself. In this effort, it is wisest to adopt the gentle patient manner of an environmental midwife, while rejecting utterly the machine-driven arrogance of some environmental equivalent to a genetic engineer. By such gentle means places might flourish again, but also the world might become less threatened.”
― Edward Relph

“Why did everything hurt?

Because everything kept working. Everything kept on as if nothing had happened. And Baru *needed* everything to hurt: Baru needed a sword for a spine, so that if she ever bent from her purpose, she'd be cut.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant