119 Quotes by Timothy Morton

I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights where birds nested and sang in the dead of night, because for them, it was day.

You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement.

Inevitably, ecological awareness has this kind of '70s flavour to it.

I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine.

An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are - I think time is a sort of liquid that pours out of hatpins, underground trains, salt crystals. So a work of art is also listening to itself, because what it is never quite coincides with how it appears, too.

Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children.

Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.

When you make or study art, you are not exploring some kind of candy on the surface of a machine. You are making or studying causality.

Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.