119 Quotes by Timothy Morton

Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long.

I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them understand something about the non-human world.

We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that you've realised that you're stuck in something, and you have this kind of uncanny awareness of that, and there's not much you can do about that feeling of stuckness.

Since when did scientific evidence become a reason to shy away from ecological action just because it wasn't popular?

The noises Russia makes on the world stage are deeply misogynist, homophobic and racist.

American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians.

It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high.

'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

I'm the absolute worst at getting jobs, ever. I had 100 rejections before I landed one. I kept all the letters in a folder until I realized I could just chuck them away.