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Vegetal writing takes place at the intersection of species with human privilege so profound and multilayered it is impossible to account for it fully, as in every written account humans speak for plants. If, as I do, one believes in the observer effect—that an observed system is disturbed by the act of observation whether the observation is by human or an instrument—then even phytographic experiences with no touch, where humans “only” observe, are impacted by the act of human observation, mediated or not, and observation is intersectional. Writing/drawing with Hong Kong plants, and observing them, is a process entangled with British colonialism very differently from the colonial entanglement when writing with the English oak.

— Plants by Numbers by Jane Prophet, Helen V. Pritchard (Page 171)

The kinds of online public campaigns that Terranova and Sundaram recommend were indeed powerfully applied to this issue, and as a result, the 2010 Dodd-Frank act (section 1502) required companies to determine through supply-chain due diligence whether or not their products contain conflict minerals from DRC or neighboring countries. But the tracing system is easily faked and has now been turned into a “mineral laundering scheme”

— Plants by Numbers by Jane Prophet, Helen V. Pritchard (Page 144)

Sometimes I start to doubt that it will work. After all, what it has in it can only be what we can put into words – what we have words for. And in that sense, it wouldn't be able to hold everything at all. We should have some other collection of knowledge, then, to balance that out – its inverse, its inner lining, everything we don't know, all the things that can't [-->] be captured in any index, can't be handled by any search engine. For the vastness of these contents cannot be traversed from word to word – you have to step in between the words, into the unfathomable abysses between ideas. With every step we'll slip and fall. It would appear the only option is to get in even deeper. Matter and anti-matter. Information and anti-information.

— Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (Page 78 - 79)

WIKIPEDIA

As far as I can tell, this is mankind's most honest cognitive project. It is frank about the fact that all the information we have about the world comes straight out of our own heads, like Athena our of Zeus's. People bring to Wikipedia everything they know. If the project succeeds, then this encyclopaedia undergoing perpetual renewal will be the greatest wonder of the world.

— Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (Page 78)

We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake up in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and we should not stop screaming until we fall asleep, and the same the next day, and the next. Each single seahorse contains enough wonder to knock the whole of humanity off its feet, if we would but pay attention.

— The Golden Mole by Katherine Rundell (Page 124)

So, does the institution always need to be only the host? If you have an institution where the members of it are also its voices [-->] and performers, could that lead to solidarities between artists and institutional workers? What happens when there's not a clear division between those positions? Would an artist we invite into the organisation then work together as a peer with the organisation?

— Infrastructuring : Four Conversations on Cultural by Susannah Haslam (Page 49 - 50)