Bridget

“He'd been planting trees in the wilderness for 3 years. He'd planted a hundred thousand of them. Out of those, twenty thousand had come up. Of the twenty thousand he expected to lose half, because of rodents or the unpredictable ways of Providence. That still meant ten Thousand Oaks would grow where before there had been nothing.”
― Jean Giono, The Man Who Planted Trees

“Our current economic system has two fundamental weaknesses: it’s based on unlimited growth on a finite planet, and it benefits a small number of people, not everyone.”
― Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take

“The most lethal part of the human body is not the fist; it is the eye. What people see and how people see it has everything to do with power.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon

“You're flying more slowly than last time, because you don't want to miss any of it. You're flying over the strawberry field, but you know it's a trap. This time you keep flying.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow