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“A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to the landscape with its plants and animals. This new existence requires a working knowledge of those multiplex and cross-linked events usually referred to as nature. It requires a measure of respect for the inertial power within such natural systems.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“Keynesian orthodoxy started from the assumption that capitalist markets would not really work unless capitalist governments were willing effectively to play nanny: most famously, by engaging in massive deficit “pump-priming” during downturns.”
― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

“When the devil does actually appear, the best option is calmness and rationality.”
― Cixin Liu, The Dark Forest

“Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,” and the harm it does to us and our world. But the problem is not the adjective. It’s the noun.”
― George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet