Timefulness Quotes

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“More pervasive and corrosive are the nearly invisible forms of time denial that are built into the very infrastructure of our society. For example, in the logic of economics, in which labor productivity must always increase to justify higher wages, professions centered on tasks that simply take time - education, nursing, or art performance - constitute a problem because they cannot be made significantly more efficient.”
Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

“This impression is a glimpse not of timelessness but timefulness, an acute consciousness of how the world is made by - indeed, made of - time.”
Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World