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“I always find peace in the company of Russian woodsmen: I feel theirs is the human environment in which I would have liked to be born. It’s good not to have to keep a conversation going. Why is life with others so hard? Because you must always find something to say.” — S. Tesson
“A free man possesses time. A man who dominates space is merely powerful. In cities, the hours and years are the flowing blood of wounded time, & they escape us. In the cabin, time grows calm. It lies at your feet like a good old dog & suddenly, you’ve even forgotten it’s there.”
“The hippies fled an order that oppressed them. The neo-foresters will flee a disorder that demoralizes them. As for the woods, they are ready to welcome pilgrims, being used to the eternal return.”— Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga, Sylvain Tesson
Here we are, you reading me reading Tesson who is reading Cassanova reading Cervantes, and in this unlikely chain through centuries and languages, finds a metaphor for the tragicomic death of Europe.
Grey energy is “when the caloric value of the food is less than the energy necessarily expended in its production and transportation.”

Supermarket eggs, is a good example of huge amounts of grey energy: 350:1.
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