Jessica Toro
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New Criticism held that a poem was a singular, self-contained thing, and to bring historical or biographical details into it was to destroy the aesthetic experience of reading.
“writing is a place where we can meet ourselves deeply, encounter the imprint of something immense running through us. It’s a place to face wild mind head-on and to apprehend the design of the universe.”
― Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft
― Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft
“most attributed their commitment to a combination of two sources in childhood or adolescence: many hours spent outdoors in “keenly remembered” wild or semi-wild places, and a mentoring adult who taught respect for nature.”
― Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
― Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
“environmental problems are often caused by the same patriarchal values that oppress women.”
― Ecofeminism: A Radical Intersectional Approach to Environmental Justice **Introduction to Ecofeminism: A Radical Intersectional Approach to Environmental Justice**
― Ecofeminism: A Radical Intersectional Approach to Environmental Justice **Introduction to Ecofeminism: A Radical Intersectional Approach to Environmental Justice**
“If having your life all figured out is the bar for being “ready” to have kids, no one will ever reach it. It is the choices you make—what to study, where to work, whom to love, and how—that will form you and shape your life, setting and delimiting the horizons of possibility, one day at a time.”
― What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice
― What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice
“A trip to buy expensive camping equipment for a two-week vacation in Yosemite is not a prerequisite or, for that matter, any substitute for more languid natural pastimes that can be had in the backyard.”
― Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
― Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
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