Topic: Anthropocentrism

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Tales from the Inner City

by Shaun Tan

“It’s hard to convey how natural it all seemed, and how even the first conversations began without us really noticing.”

by David A. Robertson

“When you take more than the land can provide, it stops giving. It can’t give. That’s what’s happened here. That’s what happens with humans.”

by Dave Eggers

“It is a tendency of the human species to see themselves in everything, to assume all living things, animals in particular, are simply corollaries to humans, but in this book, that is not the case. Here, the dogs are dogs, the birds are birds, goats are goats, the Bison Bison.”

by Oliver Jeffers

“For the fate of Fausto did not matter to them.”

by Chris Renaud

“A town without nature: not one living tree. So what happened to them? Cue the music, let’s see.”

by Yuval Noah Harari

“Animals and plants depend on one another, so if something happens to one kind of creature, it usually influences many others. And this law even applies to you”

by Robert Beatty

“Do you need the wooden wheel […] more than those trees needed their lives? Do you need the meat of the deer more than the deer needs her life, more than the fawn needs her mother?”

by Micha Archer

“I wonder.” “Me too.”

by Jason Chin

“In the vast cosmic web, in the Milky Way, in the solar system, there is a small blue planet called Earth.”