Paul Will
Paul Will
attitude law land
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.
rewards things-change recognition
If you talk about change but don't change the reward and recognition system, nothing changes.
timing turnaround
We're confident about a turnaround, but the timing is clearly later.
learning spiders facts
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
forgiveness genius stones
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
objectivity ornaments saws
We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.
tombstone life-and-death littles
Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.
necklaces nooses
Many a necklace becomes a noose.
transformation silent footnotes
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
quotation-marks theft bigs
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.
trials crime gallows
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
jealousy passion love-is
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
voice thousand
A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.
radio invisible listeners
Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.