Bryce Graham

“I am highly suspicious of attempts to brightside human suffering, especially suffering that—as in the case of almost all infectious diseases—is unjustly distributed. I’m not here to criticize other people’s hope, but personally, whenever I hear someone waxing poetic about the silver linings to all these clouds, I think about a wonderful poem by Clint Smith called “When people say, ‘we have made it through worse before.’” The poem begins, “all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones / of those who did not make it.” As in Ibn Battuta’s Damascus, the only path forward is true solidarity—not only in hope, but also in lamentation.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“People are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home, that wilderness is a necessity.”
― John Muir

“Illumined by the sun and the moon
its forests and valleys filled with
the euphony of birds and insects singing,
the rivers flowing through it’s veins,
the ebb and flow of seasons,
like the rise and fall of
waves in the oceans,
bear the procession of life.
There is harmony in the Earth’s unfolding patterns, a repeated assurance of the interconnectedness of all.”
― Meeta Ahluwalia

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King