Collective Quotes

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Viewed as a resource that sustains our humanity, the earth is a collection of places.

Colorado’s collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That’s almost as much as the entire world’s proven oil reserves!

This is taking [photos] from everybody – the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like – and linking all of that together.

I’m just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious.