Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who re...sembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record--Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages--you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For believe me!--the secret to harvesting the greatest abundance and the greatest enjoyment from existence is this--living dangero...usly! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors, so long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you knowing ones! The time will soon be past when you could be content to live hidden in the forests like timid deer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think ...it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Narrowed-down by her early editors and anthologists, reduced to quaintness or spinsterish oddity by many of her commentators, sent...imentalized, fallen-in-love with like some gnomic Garbo, still unread in the breadth and depth of her full range of work, she was, and is, a wonder to me when I try to imagine myself into that mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »