Vish Wam

“Currently, up to 20 percent of human greenhouse gas emissions are being caused by deforestation in tropical Brazil and Indonesia, making those countries two of the highest carbon emitters in the world. It is estimated that halting forest destruction would save the same amount of carbon over the next century as stopping all fossil-fuel emissions for ten years.”
― Sylvia A. Earle, The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One

“In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.”
― Sharman Apt Russell

“In famine, a focus on women and children highlights biology: here is a mother who cannot feed her child, a breakdown in the natural order of life. This focus obscures who and what is to blame for the famine, politically and economically, and can lead to the belief that a biological response, more food, will solve the problem.”
― Sharman Apt Russell, Hunger: An Unnatural History

“Youth is an unrecoverable asset. Unless you are a hydra, lucky you.”
― Anca Ioviţă