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“In Indonesia, bamboo is often planted over the site of felled trees to produce fabrics that can then be marketed as being “renewable” and environmentally friendly. Because rayon is made from cellulose, it is ripe for greenwashing, especially when consumers are fuzzy about how it’s made.”
― The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
― The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
“We’re cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“We can possess all the fine goods that our civilisation has to offer us; we can have important jobs, and social status, and tone our bodies on all the latest machines – but without a sense of belonging to the world, we feel empty and our lives lack meaning.”
― If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
― If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
“We have assumed that ancient houses were built like those of today – as weatherproof boxes for living in and raising families. So we have been very anxious to work out where people ate, slept and prepared their meals. It’s all about what happened where – and we have discovered a great deal. But revealing where people slept or prepared their food makes little sense if we don’t also try to appreciate what it was that motivated them to get out of bed every morning.”
― Scenes from Prehistoric Life: From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans
― Scenes from Prehistoric Life: From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans
“He tells her how the word beech becomes the word book, in language after language. How book branched up out of beech roots, way back in the parent tongue. How beech bark played host to the earliest Sanskrit letters.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
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