“Sometimes I feel like this whole city is one vast organism. It’s like a human being that we’re all part of. But we’re restricted by the roads, by the waterways, by the tunnels, the trains. It’s like our paths are all laid out for us, and there’s no way of deviating from them. That’s what makes that cat different from us.”
― The Cat and The City
― The Cat and The City
“I wish I could have told him that loneliness is a human invention. Trees are never lonely. Humans think they know with certainty where there being ends and someone else's starts. With there roots tangled and caught up underground, linked to fungi and bacteria, trees harbour no such illusions. For us, everything is interconnected.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“Amal,I believe that most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any inherent deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow, parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell.”
― Mornings in Jenin
― Mornings in Jenin
“Yesterday I was a river. Tomorrow, I may return as a raindrop.”
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
― There Are Rivers in the Sky
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