Anna

“The contrast between these stories is painful but inescapable. It is not only the rainforest that is being chewed up in the industrial machine, but also human cultures 30,000 years old, ways of thinking radically different from Western approaches, plants that may never be seen again, and things that many of us will never know we lost.”
― Stephen Harrod Buhner, Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Now while it is true that every witch uses magic, not every magician is a witch. As long as the definition and limits of witchcraft remain unfathomed, analysis remains superficial, and is generally made tributary to discussion of such ill-posed and insoluble questions as "the difference between magic and religion.”
― Jacob Rabinowitz

“Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End