Mickey Gjerris

“A new paradigm has come to centre stage: the future of our Earth and its atmosphere. Education systems now need to prepare a whole generation for a working life based on humans being able to coexist in balance with the very foundations of life. Why should we learn ethics? Because the coming years will be full of moral challenges. Why learn algebra? We will need to absorb hundreds of gigatons of CO2 and no one knows how to go about that right now. Why study poetry and ancient songs? Because poetry is the silver thread of the human spirit; without it, human existence is unthinkable.”
― Andri Snær Magnason, On Time and Water

“didn’t know what happened next. They didn’t know what they believed in or if there was life after death and, often, they didn’t know what hit them. They’d gone through life being amiably uncertain, until the ultimate certainty had claimed them at the last. Among the city’s bone orchards the cemetery was the equivalent of the drawer marked Misc, where people were interred in the glorious expectation of nothing very much. Most of the Watch got buried there. Policemen, after a few years, found it hard enough to believe in people, let alone anyone they couldn’t see.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch