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“The first step toward wisdom is the realization that the laws of the universe don’t care about you. The next is the realization that this does not imply that life is meaningless, because people care about you, and vice versa.”
― Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
― Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
“Defenders of industrial agriculture like to brag that Americans enjoy the cheapest food in the world. Today it's hard to know if that's a boast or an indictment.”
― Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
― Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie
“I suppose we’re both just trying to come to terms with how horrifying infinity really is.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve.”
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
“All of these things had been stored away for her to pass along someday, relics to be carried up the branches of the family tree. But the family tree stopped growing long ago, its canopy thinned and frayed, not a single sap springing from the old rotting trunk. Some trees aren't meant to sprout tender new branches, but to stand stoically on the forest floor, silently decaying.”
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
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