Quotes from Kim Stanley

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.