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The chamber’s darkness gave way to the light of the other world, the white walls of our online home appearing before us, filling our teeth with electric joy.
“I don’t want my sons to be traumatized by what happened to their father or grandfathers or great-grandfathers, but everyone should know about the lives of those who came before them so that they can figure out why their fingers are bent or why sometimes they feel bone-crushingly sad for no reason that anyone else can see.”
― Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
― Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
“How much hotter will it get? The question may sound scientific, inviting expertise, but the answer is almost entirely human—which is to say, political.”
― The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
― The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
“For a time, we had come to believe that civilization moved in the other direction—making the impossible first possible and then stable and routine. With climate change, we are moving instead toward nature, and chaos, into a new realm unbounded by the analogy of any human experience.”
― The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
― The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
“We humans, alone on Earth, are powerful enough to create worlds, and then to destroy them.”
― A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
― A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
“The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. In the memories of those who lived through them, the grim days of plague do not stand out like vivid flames, ravenous and inextinguishable, beaconing a troubled sky, but rather like the slow, deliberate progress of some monstrous thing crushing out all upon its path.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
Louise’s 2025 Year in Books
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