“ ...and breathe, inhale, exhale, and love
all seems to ooze the stress that greed has carved in us
surely our species should be meek
before our motherearth’s volcanoes
storms and huracanes
tornadoes, floods and tremors
and there we b secreting poisons for all leggeds, wingeds,
fish and even trees…”
Alurista. “Pa' Césary Corky.” Tunaluna. San Antonio, TX: Aztlan Libre Press, 2010.
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Poetry Foundation
"One traditional Kumeyaay practice had involved the construction of rock weirs across stream channels to enhance wetlands. In traditional Kumeyaay society, it was the wetlands that were the more valuable land. From there we got food, medicine, building materials, tools and game."
Connolly Miskwish, Michael. “e’Muht Mohay (Love of the Land).” San Diego Natural History Museum, November 18, 2020. Accessed August 31, 2021.
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“All, equally, are now in peril, and, if the peril is understood, there is hope that they may collectively avert it.
We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps.”
Pauling, Linus. "The Social Responsibilities of Scientists and Science." The Science Teacher 67, no. 1 (January 2000): p. 29.
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“In a study of the distribution of haddock eggs Walford (1938) concluded that the eggs tend to remain afloat in water of the same density as that in which they were fertilized. When forced into water of a different density, however, they are able at least within narrow limits to adopt a new specific gravity to conform with the water in which they drift. In the presence of changes of less than about 2 per cent of the density in which they were fertilized the eggs can become adjusted sufficiently to remain in suspension, but greater changes are inimical.”
Sverdrup, H. U., Martin W. Johnson, and Richard Howell Fleming. The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1942. pp. 842-3.
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“In dinoflagellates, bacteria, jellyfish, hydroids, and so forth, there appears to be no possible
utility; but in the higher forms, particularly those with specialized light organs capable of flashing under nervous control and arranged in definite patterns and even specific colors, utility seems clear. Light can have meaning in these instances only if eyes are developed to see it.”
Sverdrup, H. U., Martin W. Johnson, and Richard Howell Fleming. The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1942. p. 834.
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“Be this as it may, there is still much evidence, especially from the findings of the Michael Sars Expedition in the North Atlantic, to show that there is a very real, though not satisfactorily explained, correlation between the light entering the sea and the color of the animals at various levels of light penetration.
The uniform dark pigmentation of fishes in the lightless depths, as contrasted with the ventral-dorsal differentiation of those inhabiting the lighted zone, indicates that the direction of light is significant in the distribution of pigment.”
Sverdrup, H. U., Martin W. Johnson, and Richard Howell Fleming. The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1942. p. 827.
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University of California Press E-Books
“I'm on my back, naked, while you roam over me on your hands and knees, kissing, sniffing, biting, licking, sucking, turning and turning, the room barely lit and virtually forgotten, we're so absorbed in the slow, soft rhythms of this play. Control KD to save text.”
Silliman, Ron. "From "OZ"." Conjunctions, no. 9 (1986): 31-39. Accessed May 25, 2021. p. 33.
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“To succeed as computer music software writers, then, we need close exposure to high-caliber artists representing a wide variety of concerns, so that we can identify features that can solve a variety of different problems when in the hands of very different artists.
Many of the underlying ideas behind Max arose in the rich atmosphere of the MIT Experimental Music Studio in the early 1980s (which became part of the MIT Media Lab at its inception).”
Puckette, Miller. "Max at Seventeen." Computer Music Journal 26, no. 4 (2002): p. 2. doi:10.1162/014892602320991356.
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MIT
“It is not precisely a question of profundity but a different order of experience. One would have to tell what happens in a life, what choices present themselves, what the world is for us, what happens in time, what thought is in the course of a life and therefore what art is, and the isolation of the actual…”
Oppen, George. “Of Being Numerous.” New Collected Poems. Edited by Michael Davidson and Eliot Weinberger. New York: New Directions, 2008. p. 180.
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“And the deals
And the people will change again.
Under the soil
In the blind pressure
The lump,
Entity
Of substance
Changes also.”
Oppen, George. “Of Being Numerous.” New Collected Poems. Edited by Michael Davidson and Eliot Weinberger. New York: New Directions, 2008. p. 176.
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“to what are we ancestral we wanted to know
if we were any good
out there the song
changes the wind has blown the sand about
and we are alone the sea dawns
in the sunrise verse with its rough
beach-light crystal extreme”
Oppen, George. "Disasters." The American Poetry Review 5, no. 5 (1976): 14. Accessed May 26, 2021.
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“Earth
Earth is sometimes called a little deal
too. It is true that four million years
all the plants and animals in our sun’s
family are much on the earth and live in
a sea.”
Notley, Alice. "Little Stories Of The World." Ambit, no. 43 (1970): 44.
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“it except for black past its a black past to get past and they want to poison me. that was the spring they used poison. down here hear the drop of water cave the buzz of insect and theres and theres the golden glow of the cavity of the excavation the exhumation of nature stand in it stand its the veritable door of stand. to be that ever hawk the trees stand with wild flutter in the tangle. and in the after but there is no after shift. explain explain it was an explan not a now putting on a cooat and leaves bruning softly no one sees.”
Notley, Alice. “Grave of Light.” Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008. p. 291.
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“in the concept of two dennis and denise one has a tailfeather stuck on which one its so hard to find the cats eye and in the concept of two black gloss or gold light is the wings call to be all one and forget bread the light is stolen always is it midst of midst is that stolen ideas how to live in the here and now is stolen from all
the others in stolen light of grew up around the grave.”
Notley, Alice. “Grave of Light.” Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008. p. 289.
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HFS Books
“Utopian thinking can be nostalgic, a looking back in order to move forward; a sense that in order to hypothesize the idealized future, one has to imagine an ideal past, the lost Eden or Atlantis, an imaginary conflation of time and place when the species cohabitated in an idyllic condition. That Golden Age, projected by Hesiod and others, was based on a bucolic representation of enough for all and a subsequent absence of greed, vying for power, and corruption.”
Becker, Carol. "The Space Between What Is and What Wants to Be: The Abandoned Practice of Utopian Thinking." PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 38, no. 1 (2016): 6-13. doi:10.1162/pajj_a_00290. p. 12.
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Project Muse
“If the organism carries a ‘small-scale model’ of external reality and of its own possible actions within its head, it is able to try out various alternatives, conclude which is the best of them, react to future situations before they arise, utilise the knowledge of past events in dealing with the present and future, and in every way to react in a much fuller, safer, and more competent manner to the emergencies which face it.”
Atkinson, R. C. (2018). The Mind’s Theorist. Revista Colombiana de Psicología, 27, 133- 139. https://doi.org/10.15446/rcp.v27n1.68594. p. 8. Craik, Kenneth J.W. The Nature of Explanation. Cambridge University Press, 1967.
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UC San Diego
“every single thing contains all things
the pebble in your mouth its blue flame
the feather its blood”
Antin, David, and Charles Bernstein. “The Passengers.” A Conversation with David Antin. New York City, NY: Granary Books, 2002. p. 29.
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University of Pennsylvania