adam shand

Let’s grab the baby and head west, and grow our brains and hearts, read Rilke and Chief Joseph and Rimbaud and Lao-Tzu and burn meat on open fires with cowboys! — Joe Bageant, Dear Hunting with Jesus

Stupidity is greed. On a broad enough scale it becomes evil. If you ever wondered what evil is, it is stupidity on a large scale. — Bill Mollison.

The closer to the light, the longer the shadow. — Parker Palmer, Reboot.io interview

Electricity kills darkness, candlelight illuminates it. — Henry David Thoreau, via Roger Deakin

The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed — to be seen, heard and companioned exactly as it is. — Parker Palmer

This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness. — Mary Oliver

All life’s best decisions are generally preceded by an audible “fuck it”. — Michael Koziarski

… if this stuff isn’t disturbing you, it’s not working. If it isn’t shaking up your coziness, it’s not working. — John Peacock, The Buddha Doesn't Do "Cosy"

We have emerged from a line of descent that began with microbial life, a line common to all plant and animal species … [we] are dependent not only on other human beings and on the physical world but also on other creatures—animals, plants, microbes—that have evolved together with us. We will ultimately destroy ourselves if we thoughtlessly eliminate the organisms which constitute essential links in the complex and delicate web of life of which we are a part. — Rene Dubos (de-gendered by Adam).

Always cry for what you want. — Robert Bly

Trust in Allah, but tether your camel first. — Osho

It's difficult to think outside the box, because thinking is the box. — Michael Brown(?), via Gabor Maté

I'm trying to prove that all scientific knowledge is useless to humans. The more we do, the farther things get from nature, the more difficult to control. — Masanobu Fukuoka

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food. — Al Bartlett, Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis

When you can hold the pain of the world in your heart without losing sight of the vastness of the Great Eastern Sun, then you will be able to make a proper cup of tea. — Chögyam Trungpa

There's no guarantee that nature itself has as much interest in simplicity as those attempting to describe it. — A.C. Grayling