After-Orts #20
“... we can’t understand evolution without understanding climate and environment”
A drop in CO2 levels [may have] helped massive plant eaters trek from South America to Greenland https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-change-carbon-dioxide-dinosaur-migration-greenland
Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.
-- Herman Hesse, Wandering, Notes and Sketches (1920)
context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/05/04/natascha-mcelhone-wander-hesse-kew/
Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.
-- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Self-knowledge is not always good news.
-- via J.S.