“George Elliot wrote in “Middlemarch” that most of us walk about well - wadded in stupidity necessarily, because otherwise, we should see the grass grow and hear the squirrel’s heartbeat, and we would die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”— Middlemarch

R.Buckminster Fuller. Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity. Pelican. 1973.
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