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"Many evolutionists now recognise that almost everything in nature which we find beautiful or impressive has been shaped for wasteful display, not for pragmatic efficiency." Geoffrey Miller

"Once upon a time there was a man who became wise. He learned not to make a single gesture which was not useful. Soon afterward he was shut up." Paul Valery

"Unfortunately, the environmental movement has so far concentrated its attention upon the evils that technology has done rather than the good technology has failed to do. It is my hope that the attention of the Greens will shift in the next century from the negative to the positive." Freeman Dyson

"With their power tools, portable generators, weapons, four-wheel drive vehicles, and personal computers, they are like beavers hyped up on crystal meth, manic engineers without a blueprint, chewing through the wilderness, building things and abandoning them, altering the flow of mighty rivers and then moving on because the place ain't what it used to be." Neal Stephenson

"Make the fog flee before you!" Andre Breton

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