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- Creativity is not rooted in reason: creativity is rooted in the earth of our natures. We when we chastise ourselves that we need to ‘be more creative’ we demonstrate that we have forgotten ‘Being-creative.’
- The greatest cure for anxiety is an afternoon in a sunny garden. We need anxiety medication in direction proportion to the degree to which we have lost access to the natural world. Nature does not know depression.
- Americans are still Emersonian even if we’ve stopped reading Emerson: split between skepticism and transcendence, insisting our a unitary nature only through force of Will.
- There is no such thing as morality, only extrapolations from the moods of love and hate. Morality is an interpretation of mood.
- Don’t have children: plant oak trees.
- Barcelona must be the dullest place on earth to travel right now. Where collective opinion goes, the collective spirit dies. Commodifiers are locusts.
