During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on … - Daniel Quinn

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We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on.

Daniel Quinn

During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way, it's certainly going to be extraordinary. If they figure out how to live sustainably here, then hum anity will be able to see something it can't see right now: a future that extends into the indefinite future. If they don't figure this out, then I'm afraid the human race is going to take its place among the species that we're driving into extinction here every day--as many as 200--every day

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