#marston bates

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

In defying nature, in destroying nature, in building an arrogantly selfish, man-centered, artificial world, I do not see how man can gain peace or freedom or joy. I have faith in man's future, faith in the possibilities latent in the human experiment: but it is faith in man as a part of nature, working with the forces that govern the forests and the seas; faith in man sharing life, not destroying it.

from The Forest and The Sea by Marston Bates

[myjetpackisonfire]

@astraldemise When you wrote “The fruits of the earth do not exist to be worth something to us” had you read

The Forest and the Sea by Marston Bates?

I read it years ago and your quote was eerie in how it brought me back to a specific line from the beginning of the book where Marston describes mankind’s classifications of nature

[clyde420-69-666]

Forschung besteht darin, sich in Gassen herumzutreiben, um zu sehen, ob es Sackgassen sind.

[floaterquoter]

The danger of being hit by an automobile is a consequence of living in one kind of environment; the danger of being hit by a falling coconut or lost in a seagoing canoe is the consequence of a different way of life.

Marston Bates  The Forest and The Sea

[asecondlanguage]

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind

Marston Bates

[adjoining-blog]

Faced with astronomical space and geological time, faced with the immense diversity of living forms, how can one ask of one particular kind of butterfly, “What good is it?” Often my reaction is to ask in turn, “What good are you?”

The Forest and the Sea, Marston Bates