Emily

“Climate change is fast, much faster than it seems we have the capacity to recognize and acknowledge; but it is also long, almost longer than we can truly imagine.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

“It has become commonplace among climate activists to say that we have, today, all the tools we need to avoid catastrophic climate change—even major climate change. It is also true. But political will is not some trivial ingredient, always at hand. We have the tools we need to solve global poverty, epidemic disease, and abuse of women, as well.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

“If all you ever see is reality, you just want to die.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Les délices de Tokyo

“I began to understand that we were born in order to see and listen to the world. And that's all this world wants of us. It doesn't matter that I was never a teacher or a member of the workforce, my life had meaning.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Sweet Bean Paste