“That evening, as I watched the sunset’s pinwheels of apricot and mauve slowly explode into red ribbons, I thought: The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on.”

Source: A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Chapter 5 “Vision” (p. 256)

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