Isaac Yuen
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2047: Short Stories from Our Common Future
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Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World
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Atlas der ungewöhnlichen Klänge: Eine Reise zu den akustischen Wundern unserer Erde
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"If you are anything like me and have grown up (or allegedly grown up that is), with David Attenborough’s marvellous and sometimes magical documentaries on the world we live in, then you will probably be fascinated by the natural world like me. There "
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"A delightful take on all life forms, packed with factual whimsy. A cheeky must-read for any homo sapien who wants to revel in language and clever insights about living things; one's fellow creatures are fun, funny, and joyful to behold!
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There’s a resonant passage that comes early in Jabr’s debut full-length work, a modern retelling of James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis, one where the planet is seen as a living organism shaping and in turn is shaped by the beings that call it home:“Per...more |
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There’s a resonant passage that comes early in Jabr’s debut full-length work, a modern retelling of James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis, one where the planet is seen as a living organism shaping and in turn is shaped by the beings that call it home:“Per...more |
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So nice to be able to talk in-person with you about the book! I'm glad the humour was up your alley as well!
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"I didn't know what exactly to expect when I started reading this book. It took a bit of adjustment to the intricate language, but once I got the style, oh boy, I could not stop reading! It made me laugh, it made me weep, it made me absolutely fascina"
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“What are we talking about when we talk about heart? As it may prove to be for coral polyps and tube sponges, the heart we obsess over in so many of our stories and sagas is not a mere pump or knot of muscle, but rather a core essence from which some cadence of being arises, thrums of ongoings that comprise the fierce living on this planet, this rock—itself a larger venture in the shaping of patterns into a strand of music three-plus billion years in the making, played out against the backdrop of an older community that may or may not be listening, a universal commonwealth from which Mystery with a capital M resides, even as it rises and falls to its own incalculable rhythm—all of which are very much beyond the scope of this guide.”
― Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World
― Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World
“Perhaps what we truly crave lies in the act of encircling, to orbit one another around an unspoken center, apart but never parting, never fully merging so we can be constant in our yearning, to touch, to commune, as points of a constellation-in-making.”
― Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World
― Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World
“Of course, better than being named by another is to discover a name for yourself, to attain that long-sought, hard-fought description that captures the essence of your being, the one that might not be so much spoken as made manifest.”
― Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World
― Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World
“Fulfillment, Shevek thought, is a function of time. The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal, The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.
Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings.
It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and the future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of human strength; there is no good to be done without it.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings.
It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and the future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of human strength; there is no good to be done without it.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.”
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“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
― Silent Spring
― Silent Spring
“This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
“Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.”
― Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
― Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
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