"Even the habitués of the cthonic forces of terror will not learn one-tenth of what nature promises its less idly curious but more sober children, who possess in technology not a fetish of doom but a key to happiness."
-Walter Benjamin
"The laws of Venus-Mother Nature cannot be deciphered by the children of Mars - these children who die and will continue to die at the stake before they ever understand that locally, within the walls of Athens for example, but also globally, at some indefinite time and place, the aforementioned decomposition brings back a large teeming, atomic populace sliding down some thalweg, and thereby, by this declination, reconstitutes a world."
-Michel Serres
