On Fairy-Stories (1939)
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
The Believer interview (2013)
Context: Yeah, our view of reality, the one we conventionally take, is one among many. It’s pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don’t actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what’s going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings. We perceive our own perception, and that perception is to us the entirety of the universe. I believe magic is, on one level, the willful attempt to alter those perceptions. Using your metaphor of an aperture, you would be widening that window or changing the angle consciously, and seeing what new vistas it affords you.
Source: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 36
“Technology is made by humans. If we modify our body with human creations we become more human.”
As quoted in The Sun (15 May 2012). "Eye, Robot" http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/irishsun/irishsunnews/4317084/Eye-Robot.html
Against fracking in the Karoo, 3 May 2011
Speaking & Features
“In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "The Land Ethic", p. 210.
Address at Oyster Bay, New York (27 July 1904) http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/txtspeeches/104.txt, in response to the committee appointed to notify him of his nomination for the Presidency.
1900s
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
