Eli

“If only we had listened to the scientists studying zoonotic diseases who have long warned that such a pandemic was inevitable if we continued to disrespect nature and disrespect animals. But their warnings fell on deaf ears. We didn’t listen and now we are paying a terrible price.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“The majority of the 'irreligious' still behave religiously, even though they are not aware of the fact. . . . [T]he modern man who feels and claims that he is nonreligious still retains a large stock of camouflaged myths and degenerated rituals.”
― Mircea Eliade

“It should be said at once that the completely profane world, the wholly desacralized cosmos, is a recent discovery in the history of the human spirit…for the nonreligious men of the modern age, the cosmos has become opaque, inert, mute; it transmits no message, it holds no cipher.”
― Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

“But, after all, what is a scholar? One who may not break bounds under pain of expulsion from the academy of which he is a member.”
― Robert Graves, The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth