84 Quotes by Stephanie Mills

I don’t know what it takes to make marriage work, but I’m going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven’t given up on love or marriage.

If a technology is elegant, biodegradable, made from renewable materials and employs a minimum of muscular, water or wind energy, is responsive, beautiful in its way, and challenging to the user in that it develops the user’s senses and strength – it may comport with nature.

What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization’s war upon it.

It’s the artist’s duty to have an artist’s life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world’s aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.

Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology – from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb – why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they’ll employ a technological innovation?

Enjoying the least things – a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs – is a form of prayer.

Everything that’s old is new, and everything that’s new is old.

Respecting beings, places, and life ways would be a basis for a worthy systemic analysis. And such an analysis would be inherently conservative, assuming that technology – from the fire stick to the silicon chip – is apt to do more harm to the Whole than good.

It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It’s a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English.