Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Ursula K. Le Guin on evolution
Ursula K. Le Guin161 quotes“Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.”
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Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.
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Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people .
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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