I feel like human beings can't help but destroy, but if our numbers are small we don't destroy as much as we do when our numbers are this huge and out of control. I wonder, what's the carrying capacity for human beings? When do we get to the point when we can't take it anymore, when it becomes too unpleasant to us just to be here because there's too many of us and there's no solitude anymore.
I feel like human beings can't help but destroy, but if our numbers are small we don't destroy as much as we do when our numbers are this huge and ou… - Melissa Holbrook Pierson
I feel like human beings can't help but destroy, but if our numbers are small we don't destroy as much as we do when our numbers are this huge and ou…
- Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourse… - Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourse…
We're physical objects, we think of ourselves as these kind of free-floating brains, but the brain is such a little part. It's way smaller than we li… - Melissa Holbrook Pierson
We're physical objects, we think of ourselves as these kind of free-floating brains, but the brain is such a little part. It's way smaller than we li…
There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and an acute inquiry into the big subject… - Melissa Holbrook Pierson
There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and an acute inquiry into the big subject…
I'm not necessarily a happy person. I don't think that happiness is always the right response to a situation. I think we've come to a point in time w… - Melissa Holbrook Pierson
I'm not necessarily a happy person. I don't think that happiness is always the right response to a situation. I think we've come to a point in time w…
If we didn't love things, then we couldn't feel their loss. The flip side of loving is losing. I mean, you can't experience one without the other. - Melissa Holbrook Pierson
If we didn't love things, then we couldn't feel their loss. The flip side of loving is losing. I mean, you can't experience one without the other.
I don't think of myself as fitting into a category. But I had to be careful in all of my books not to repeat things, because I have these ideas, and … - Melissa Holbrook Pierson
I don't think of myself as fitting into a category. But I had to be careful in all of my books not to repeat things, because I have these ideas, and …
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