“You damned liberals.” “I don’t know what that means.” “It means you’re too soft-hearted to ever actually do anything.” - Kim Stanley Robinson

When she realized what she was doing she snorted in disgust, at herself and at the pervasiveness of politics—how it could infect everything if you let it.

After every revolution there is an interregnum, in which communities run themselves and all is well, and then the new regime comes in and screws things up.

So life adapts to conditions. And at the same time, conditions are changed by life. That is one of the definitions of life: organism and environment change together in a reciprocal arrangement, as they are two manifestations of an ecology, two parts of a whole.