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Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes

Kim Stanley Robinson quotes about powerful

American Writer March 23, 1952

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We were outside the world, we didn't even own things -- some clothes. . . . This arrangement resembles the prehistoric way to live, and it therefore feels right to us, because our brains recognize it from 3 millions of years practicing it. In essence our brains grew to their current configuration in response to the realities of that life. So as a result people grow powerfully attached to that kind of life, when they get the chance to live it. It allows you to concentrate your attention on the... Kim Stanley Robinson
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves. Kim Stanley Robinson
So that human beings were miraculous indeed - conscious creators, walking this new world like fresh young gods, wielding immense alchemical powers. So that anyone Michel met on Mars he regarded curiously, wondering as he looked at their often innocuous exteriors what kind of new Paracelsus or Isaac of Holland stood before him, and whether they would turn lead to gold, or cause rocks to blossom. Kim Stanley Robinson
We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably. Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay..."
They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds. Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who..."
It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power. Kim Stanley Robinson

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