TheAccidental Reader

“It’s an unreasonably cruel thing to deprive someone of (an intact, diverse, and ecologically functional native landscape), but that’s the norm for millions of people in the United States and elsewhere. We clear everything, import invasives, and plant vapid ornamental garbage in whatever space is left.”
― Joey Santore, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance

“psychopaths are generally well satisfied with themselves and with their inner landscape, bleak as it may seem to outside observers.”
― Robert D. Hare PhD, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us 1st (first) edition

“The cultural fear of “bugs” we have as a society, without understanding what they do or how vital they are to the rest of life, is silly and archaic.”
― Joey Santore, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance

“Climate change is talked about everywhere as a threat to humanity’s future, but most people seem entirely oblivious to the almost greater threat of habitat destruction and land clearance.”
― Joey Santore, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance