Susan Tweit

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Susan is Currently Reading

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Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild

by Barbara J. King

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Susan Tweit said: " I am engrossed by Barbara J. King's new book, Animals' Best Friends. Love the way she uses her personal experience to illuminate her thoughtful examination of our relationship to other animals. And now I'm pondering what "compassionate actions" to ta ...more "

Apr 12, 2021 09:32AM · see review

Susan’s Quotes

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series

tags: quoted-by-wally-lamb

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“Wilderness is not a place of isolation but contemplation. Refuge. Refugees.....Wilderness is a knife that cuts through pretense and exposes fear. Even in remote country, you cannot escape your mind.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

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“Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles....If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

tags: eating-locally, environment, food-security

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