Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

  • -- William Irwin Thompson 威廉·厄文·汤普森

原始人类和人类的进化经历了数百万年而不是数十亿年,但随着语言的出现,时间和变化速度进一步加快。

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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

也许是时候停止称其为“环保主义者”的观点了,就好像它是人类活动主流之外的一种游说努力,而开始称其为现实世界的观点。

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

人类语言和文字所能做的最奇怪的事情就是创造一个隐喻。这是一个惊人的飞跃,不是吗?

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

一个人如何死去并不重要,重要的是他如何生活。死亡的行为并不重要,它持续的时间很短。

I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.

我把所有的时间都花在殴打我喜欢的人身上,用我的手臂搂着我讨厌的人唱歌。