It is human beings who are likely to destroy the world. If so, we can perhaps die in the last atomic explosion knowing that this is not health but fear; it is part of the failure of healthy people and healthy society to carry its ill members.[D.W. Winnicott]
Home Is Where We Start From: Essays By A Psychoanalyst ('The Concept of a Healthy Individual'), p.37
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Weeds, he said, don't exist. We call plants we don't want "weeds," but to Rolling Thunder all plants have a purpose that should be respected.
[...] For him there are no weeds, no mosquito bites, no unwanted rains. There are no dangerous plants or animals. For him there is no fear. The wind and the rain, the mosquitoes and the snakes are all within him. His consciousness extends to include them within its very being.
[Doug Boyd]
Rolling Thunder, p.9, 72
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