Jillian Webster
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"We studied the Myth Cycle at Uni and I was interested enough to come back to this book years later and read the whole thing. It is well worth a read – an endlessly fascinating book by a fascinating man.
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“This leaf is life,” he says very seriously. “It is the one and only link between the earth and the sun; every second it is taking light and creating the nutrients our bodies need to survive. It takes toxins from the air to give us clean oxygen to breathe. It supplies us with medicine to heal our bodies. Even when humans numbered in the tens of billions, this leaf—our plant life—made up over ninety-nine percent of the earth’s living creatures. All of life depends on them. They were here long before us and they will be here long after we’re gone.”
― The Weight of a Thousand Oceans
― The Weight of a Thousand Oceans
“The basic elements that make up this tree, the ant below you, the beating heart within you, were created in a star above you, billions of years ago.” He pauses, then turns to look at her. “Maia, everything that lives will one day fall into the earth and become one with it. We are all one. Never forget that.”
― The Weight of a Thousand Oceans
― The Weight of a Thousand Oceans
“Darling, you are a beautiful thing born from this disaster. Life is still here. If there is one thing we all have in common, from the smallest, most insignificant creature to the largest, it would be that nothing wants to die.”
― The Weight of a Thousand Oceans
― The Weight of a Thousand Oceans
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