Michaela Egleston

“However strange his destiny may be, it is also sublime! I myself have understood that much. Did I not also live this unnatural life for ten months? Thus, to that question asked six thousand years ago by Ecclesiastes, 'That which is far off, and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?' only two men now have the right to answer: Captain Nemo and myself.”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

“You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort!”
― P.D. Eastman & Roy McKee, Are You My Mother?

“They set out together in the moonlight. They had gone a good way along the hedge when they came upon an old box lying in the ditch. Sitting on top of the box was Yona the hedgehog. His prickles were stuck all over with dog-rose petals and he was making an extraordinary squeaking, grunting noise and waving his black paws. They stopped and looked at him.
“Whatever are you doing, Yona?” asked Hufsa in astonishment.
“Singing to the moon,” answered Yona. “All hedgehogs have to sing to the moon to make the slugs come, surely you know that?
‘O Slug-a-Moon, O Slug-a-Moon,
O grant thy faithful hedgehog’s boon!”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“frailty, and resolve to save the planet, we cast ourselves in a very specific role. That role is of a parent, the parent of the earth. But the opposite is the case. It is we humans who are fragile and vulnerable and the earth that is hearty and powerful, and holds us in its hands. In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too far, has ample power to rock, burn, and shake us off completely. That knowledge should inform all we do—especially”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate