Shimjith Singh

“ഹൃദ്യമായ സ്വീകരണം'' എന്ന അർഥത്തിലുള്ള ''വാം വെൽക്ക''മിനെ ''ഊഷ്മള''മായ സ്വീകരണമാക്കി അവർ പ്രയോഗിക്കും. തണുപ്പുള്ള നാടായ ഇംഗ്ലണ്ടിൽ സ്വീകരണം ''ഊഷ്മള''മാകുന്നത് സ്വാഭാവികമാണ്. പക്ഷേ, നമ്മുടേതുപോലുള്ള ഉഷ്ണരാജ്യത്ത് സ്വീകരണം ''ഊഷ്മള''മാവുന്നതിനേക്കാൾ ''ഹൃദ്യ''മാവുന്നതല്ലേ നല്ലത്?”
― EMS Namboodiripad, Nammude Bhasha : നമ്മുടെ ഭാഷ

“Name – My beautiful boy. Cause of death – This broken world.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“Shatov stared at me and said, ‘Old boy, you don’t understand. A member of the Politburo who can speak for forty minutes without notes — he must be a genius!”
― Oleg Gordievsky, Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky

“Since the start of the industrial revolution, humans have burned through enough fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas—to add some 365 billion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere. Deforestation has contributed another 180 billion tons. Each year, we throw up another nine billion tons or so, an amount that’s been increasing by as much as six percent annually. As a result of all this, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air today—a little over four hundred parts per million—is higher than at any other point in the last eight hundred thousand years. Quite probably it is higher than at any point in the last several million years.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History