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Caitlin
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“One can fully own a manufactured thing—a toaster, say, or a pair of shoes. But in what reasonable sense can one fully "own" and have "rights" to do whatever we want to land, water, air, and forests, which are among the most valuable assets in humanity's basic endowments? To say, in the march of eons, that we own these things into which we suddenly, fleetingly appear and from which we will soon vanish is like a newborn laying claim to the maternity ward, or a candle asserting ownership of the cake; we might as well declare that, having been handed a ticket to ride, we've bought the train. Let's be serious.”
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
“We are one knot in a great web of being, building out of the vast past and (with luck) continuing billions of years into the future, until the sun dies, the last of its energy reaches Earth, and our local light goes out. The most appropriate response to the world is to realize, with awe, the ferocious mystery of being alive in it. And act accordingly. The worst thing anyone should be able to say about their life is also the greatest thing anyone can say: 'I tried my best.”
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
“Whenever we take the focus off ourselves and move it outward, we benefit. Life's most fortunate ironies are that what's best for the long run is best now, and selflessness serves our interests far better than selfishness. The wider our circle of considerations, the more stable we make the world—and the better the prospects for human experience and for all we might wish. The core message of each successive widening: we are one. The geometry of the human voyage is not linear; it's those ripples whose circles expand to encompass self, other, community, Life, and time.”
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
“This is how you spend this afternoon, and tomorrow morning, and tomorrow afternoon. Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.”
― The Abundance
― The Abundance
“We each make our solo voyages to deep, expansive waters. Alone in our contest with the wider world, we test our mettle and seek our trophies, promotions, compliments, and accolades. We strive to be needed and to thereby know that there is a reason for us. We seek to be told we are good because we're too unsure of ourselves to know. Yet often we remain so focused on our neediness that we forget the creatures—human and otherwise—we're drawing into the vortex of our own passion play. All of us have compulsive loves we must forbear. We forget to see that we can engage the world without harming it. And although we fish for approval, the challenge is: to capture our prizes while bringing more to the world than we take.”
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
Caitlin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Caitlin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
34 books
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8 friends
2,243 books
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38 friends
2,452 books
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144 friends
1,753 books
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118 friends
566 books
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192 friends
3,664 books
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71 friends
752 books
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59 friends
109 books
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37 friends
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