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“I wondered about going down to the creek, but I had no reason to suppose that the creek would even be there, since I never visited it on Tuesday mornings.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“You don’t have to die in the next year if you die this year.”
― Shakespeare William

“If alcohol fuels our Dionysian tendencies, caffeine nurtures the Apollonian.”
― Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

“We can continue pushing our earth out of balance, with greenhouse gases accelerating each year, or we can regain balance by acknowledging that if we harm one species, one forest, one lake, this ripples through the entire complex web. Mistreatment of one species is mistreatment of all.

The rest of the planet has been waiting patiently for us to figure that out. Making this transformation requires that humans recommect with nature -- the forests, the prairie, the oceans -- instead of treating everything and everyone as objects for exploitation.”
― Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest