“Classical scientific definitions of intelligence use humans as a yardstick by which all other species are measured. … As we so do so, some of the vexed hierarchies that underpin modern thought start to soften. As they soften, our ruinous attitudes toward the more-than-human world may start to change.”

Credits are imaginary. I’ll accept them because we’ve collectively decided that’s how we do things, but I prefer doing business in a tangible way.

The Carroll household had decided on the superiority of chunky peanut butter when it came to sandwiches and the like and would fight you with a surprising level of vehemence on the subject if you attempted to argue otherwise.

”The record holding lichen lives in Swedish Lapland and is more than nine thousand years old. “ how do they know, there is no footnote explaining the testing or observation to this.

“Nothing in the world is normal,” he said. “I can’t understand why you’d even hope for that.”

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