Lady Darwin
12 January 2012 @ 1:52 AM
"I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself."
—

Virginia Woolf, A Sketch of the Past

I am always looking for the embodiment of nature and literature and art and queerness in other people or works, and this quote gave me pause, as her words often do. People seem to view ecosystems and ecology as obtuse and incomprehensible except in the way that you care about the forests and the arctic and the oceans because you know that you hurt when you see mountains stripped of trees and aerial shots of oil plumes in the Gulf of Mexico, but you don’t know why, and this quote, this quote by a woman who would die decades before oil crises and climate chaos and hydrofracking, this quote tells you why.

Because we are killing ourselves.

(Source: writing.colostate.edu)

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