Sharon James

“That’s the trouble with people, their root problem. Life runs alongside them, unseen. Right here, right next.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“If you listen, I’ll tell you a story. We can know and be known to each other, and then we’re not enemies anymore.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“Marveling at the perfection of that leaf, I was reminded that aesthetic beauty is as much about how and whether you look as what you see. From the quark to the supernova, the wonders do not cease. It is our attentiveness that is in short supply, our ability and willingness to do the work that awe requires.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet