TheAccidental Reader

“Floral carpets are prettier than plain green ones.”
― Sara Bonnett Stein, Planting Noah's Garden: Further Adventures in Backyard Ecology

“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

“The conventions of modern human landscaping seem totally deranged.”
― Joey Santore, Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance

“Millions of men, women, and children daily suffer terror, anxiety, pain, and humiliation at the hands of the psychopaths in their lives.”
― Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us