« It is then that Adam understands: The human species is deeply ill. It won't be long. It was an outlier. Soon the world will be restored to sound intelligences, collective intelligences. Colonies and beehives. »
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Richard POWERS
The World Tree |
Richard POWERS
The World Tree
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« Chinese proverb: "When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years earlier." »
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Richard POWERS
The World Tree |
Richard POWERS
The World Tree
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« Humans carry within them a whole legacy of behaviors and prejudices, plated and tinkered with from previous stages of evolution, which follow their own outdated rules. Seemingly erratic and irrational choices are in fact strategies created in the past to solve other types of problems. We are all prisoners of the bodies of cunning and upstart opportunists fashioned to survive the savannah by controlling each other. »
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Richard POWERS
The World Tree |
Richard POWERS
The World Tree
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