Victoria Starbuck
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“To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.”
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“You are currently living in a world in which the human ability to create garbage—or eventual garbage—has surpassed Earth’s ability to generate life.”
― Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
― Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.”
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine act of insurrection.”
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“It was to him a very strange and perplexing place, where people wore fine clothes and had hard hearts.”
― O Pioneers!
― O Pioneers!
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