Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

  • -- Virginia Woolf 弗吉尼亚伍尔夫

自然中的绿色是一回事,文学中的绿色是另一回事。自然和文字似乎有一种天然的反感;把他们聚在一起,他们就会互相撕成碎片。

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Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

恐惧、分离、仇恨和愤怒来自于错误的观点,即你和地球是两个独立的实体,地球只是环境。你在中心,你想为地球做点什么,为了你的生存。这是一种二元的观点。

A finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

一个完成的故事可以使一个人在光明和文学意义上永生;但一个未完成的故事暗示着另一种不朽,更本质,也更奇怪。

The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.

考尔斯委员会是我想做的这类研究的最佳环境。

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

写作是关于文化的,应该是关于一切的。这就是它的本质。