“The people of Earth did not understand that humans were part of a worldwide organism, that something as tiny as a cluster of bacteria could mean the difference between life and death for every living thing, the difference between a functioning, flourishing planet and a desolation.”
Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 32, “I Am Gretamara/On Mars” (p. 272)
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Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors (1986)
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors (1986)
" 'Intellectual disobedience' and the future of copyright: Nina Paley interviewed at Foo (2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcJqxIyFv4s#t=4m25s" <!-- Retrieved 27 February 2013 -->
Context: In ten years I think the [copyright] laws are going to be worse and I also think they are going to be less relevant. I mean, already the difference between the laws and people's behaviour, It's like they're different planets. I'm not hopeful for the laws changing. A lot of other people are, so maybe we will have meaningful copyright reform. I doubt it. I don't think it matters. I think the tools are available for people to create and share culture and they're going to do that and they might be doing it illegaly and at a certain point it's going to be more than the system can handle. I will say that if the power structure as it exists wants to continue they're going to have to reform because it's not sustainable. Copyright law as it is, it's just completely out of touch with human behaviour.
Source: The Drawing of the Three
