Desiree

“Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot”
― Iain M. Banks

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“Historically, evolution has been depicted as linear and branching, like a tree, or cross-linked, like a web. Although those metaphors certainly capture many evolutionary processes, others are much more sinuous—even circular. Again and again, life and environment alter each other through feedback loops. Through their behaviors and byproducts, living creatures make lasting changes to their surroundings that partly determine the fate of their descendants and of other species. Microbes can seed clouds. Forests on one continent can make it rain on another. Breath can sway a planet.”
― Ferris Jabr, Becoming Earth: A Journey Through the Hidden Wonders that Bring Our Planet to Life

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954