"“You want to make something real, you have to experience something, not just something you’ve read or you’ve listened to… something that is you.”"
Musician Pan Daijing as interviewed by Aurora Mitchell for The Quietus.
"It is no longer rare to meet adults who have never swum except in a swimming pool, never slept except in a building, never run a mile or climbed a mountain, never been stung by a bee or a wasp, never broken a bone or needed stitches. Without a visceral knowledge of what it is to be hurt and healed, exhausted and resolute, freezing and ecstatic, we lose our reference points. We are separated from the world by a layer of glass. Climate change, distant wars, the erosion of democracy, resurgent fascism – in our temperature-controlled enclosures, all can be reduced to abstractions."
George Monbiot in the Guardian
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