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“Done at a certain time, depriving plants of water places them under stress and sends them into survival mode; to increase their chance of reproduction they begin to produce as much seed as possible. The rice paddy was born out of these careful observations, and it became the most productive food system ever devised.”
― Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

“Physicists calculated that the initial impact that created the Chicxulub crater in Central America would have been powerful enough to blow many terrestrial dinosaurs in the vicinity off into space.”
― Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

“If you’re reading this and work in private insurance or the American government, fuck off and fuck you, forever. In the words of David Lynch, “Fix your hearts or die.”
― Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

“A plane dragged black letters through the air: Happy Birthday America—200 Years of Liberty and Independence. Who paid for it? He couldn’t tell, so he added: Love, Buckwheat.”
― Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto