- Nov 07, 2020
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- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.
- Measurement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.
- Messenger
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- Nov 07, 2020