“Love is an action word, I thought. It can be committed, like a crime.”
― The Original Daughter
― The Original Daughter
“We are so powerful that we have escaped our planet’s atmosphere, but we are not powerful enough to save those we love from suffering.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“If she must grow roots, she would rather be left to flourish wild instead of pruned, would rather stand alone, allowed to grow beneath the open sky. Better that than firewood, cut down just to burn in someone else’s hearth.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“I'm struck by our simplistic belief that people and reality could be empirically qualified and thus understood, when it's the inexplicable surplus that makes us who we are.”
― The Original Daughter
― The Original Daughter
“Of course, we still know almost nothing about what’s coming—neither for us as individuals nor for us as a species. Perhaps that’s why I find it so comforting that we do know when Halley will return, and that it will return, whether we are here to see it or not. I give Halley’s comet four and a half stars.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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