Maggie

“We rode home, the streetlights here and there above us. That day was a purple day-- neither good or bad, but something we passed through.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“people learning about climate change for the first time might understandably believe, upon listening to Lunnon and Thunberg, that climate change is the result of deliberate, malevolent actions. In reality, it is the opposite. Emissions are a by-product of energy consumption, which has been necessary for people to lift themselves, their families, and their societies out of poverty, and achieve human dignity. Given that’s what climate activists have been taught to believe, it’s understandable that so many of them would be so angry.”
― Michael Shellenberger, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

“The scale of the mess we leave behind is proportionate to the level of respect we have for others.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Long sleeps the summer in the seed.

Verse CIV”
― Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam