Bird's-eye Quotes
You see life as a contrast between misery and pleasure, Jon; that is not a correct interpretation.”
"It's a pretty good rule of thumb, I should have thought.”
"Thought and non-thought is the only valid line of comparison.”
"Bit of a bird's-eye view, isn't it? That puts us on the same level as the proles.
Brian Aldiss
A bird's-eye view of centralised and disempowered societies will reveal a strictly rectilinear network of streets, farms, and property boundaries. It is as though we have patterned the earth to suit our survey instruments rather than to serve human or environmental needs. We cannot perhaps blame Euclid for this, but we can blame his followers. The straight-line patterns that result prevent most sensible landscape planning strategies and result in neither an aesthetically nor functionally satisfactory landscape or stretscape. Once established, then entered into a body of law, such inane (or insane) patterning is stubbornly defended. But it is created by, and can be dismantled by, people.
Bill Mollison
I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.'
Eric McCormack
