Environmentalism is not about saving nature, but saving civilization.
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Nowadays, we designate wildernesses instead of discover them.
Oil barons who plundered Alaska’s tundras, over millions of years dissolve into oil themselves.
Developers build because parents beget. Suburbs sprawl because lovers do.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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