Amanda Coplin Quotes

Objects too at times, after all, like the landscape, held the potential for meaning- she took out the first object now- and were able to comfort.

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• When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.

  

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• The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

  

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• In fact, the American Mastodon vanished around thirteen thousand years ago. Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided with the spread of modern humans and, increasingly, is understood to have been a result of it. In this sense, the crisis Cuvier discerned just beyond the edge of recorded history was us.

  

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• Objects too at times, after all, like the landscape, held the potential for meaning- she took out the first object now- and were able to comfort.

  

  Amanda Coplin
  • Meaning
  • Landscape
  • Objects