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"She is so enamoured with the hawk, human company becomes almost intolerable. She is becoming part of the hawks personality as a way of overcoming her grief." — Mar 07, 2026 05:07AM
"She is so enamoured with the hawk, human company becomes almost intolerable. She is becoming part of the hawks personality as a way of overcoming her grief." — Mar 07, 2026 05:07AM
“It wants what it wants. Hopes what it hopes. Needs what it needs loves what it loves.”
― Orbital
― Orbital
“But there are no new thoughts. They’re just old thoughts born into new moments – and in these moments is the thought: without that earth we are all finished. We couldn’t survive a second without its grace, we are sailors on a ship on a deep, dark unswimmable sea.”
― Orbital
― Orbital
“If you say pavalova I’m going to fucking kill myself(!) - Dan from. Our wives under the Sea”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
“We often find ourselves wishing for more hours in the day, but that wouldn't help anything. The problem, clearly, isn't that we have a shortage of time. It's more that we have an overload of everything else.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“Our lives here are inexpressibly trivial and momentous at once, it seems he’s about to wake up and say. Both repetitive and unprecedented. We matter greatly and not at all. To reach some pinnacle of human achievement only to discover that your achievements are next to nothing and that to understand this is the greatest achievement of any life, which itself is nothing, and also much more than everything. Some metal separates us from the void; death is so close. Life is everywhere, everywhere.”
― Orbital
― Orbital
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