ChrisR

“With me, you know it's like this: when I sober up, I get wise and stupid, and when I'm drunk, I get stupid and wise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“It is only the old who look older in tragedy.”
― Heidi Sopinka, The Dictionary of Animal Languages

“The Lebanese flag has a cedar tree on it because much of what is now desert was thickly forested before the harbingers of civilization--i.e., woodcutters, farmers, and goats--saw to it that large stands of cedar will never grace the Holy Land again. The stark and sere limestone hills that we think of as typical Greek and Italian landscape were once all but invisible beneath a layer of long-gone topsoil held in place by forests of cedar and oak.”
― John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

“If you want honey you need a hive of bees. But if you were trying to decide if making honey was a good idea, bees would be the last creatures to ask.”
― Bill McKibben, Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist