I’ve seen a crap-ton of Doris Lessing quotations since her death. I rather liked this one: “We’re a species under extremely heavy stress. We emerged from the last ice age 12,000 years ago, and we are shortly – say, next week or in a thousand years’ time – going back into another ice age. Compared to that threat, nuclear war is a puppy. We have lived through many ice ages, through wars and famines. Look at Barbara Tuchman’s book on the 14th century, ‘A Distant Mirror’ – nobody thought they would survive that century, but they did. We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even in the long run to start thinking.”
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 06:54:14 +0000
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