## Metadata - Author: [[Lewis Hyde]] - Full Title: Common as Air - Category: #books ## Highlights - Among other things, then, the commons is sometimes the name of a primordial state, or of the longing for its return. If only the original, commodious world could be recovered, perhaps we could all be quit of the dry skin of scarcity. ([Location 390](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003R0LBPS&location=390)) - True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers. ([Location 439](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003R0LBPS&location=439))