Tamara

“The entire legacy of humanity will be only one thing, a line of red goop in the paleo-oceanographic record, a time of no calcium carbonate shells that will stretch on for several million years. The sadness of our stupidity is overwhelming.”
― David Vann, Aquarium

“What do we owe for what has come before us, the previous generation?... The problem is that we can never enter this shadow world in order to make payment.”
― David Vann, Aquarium

“High-minded idiocy pitted against the power of coin.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“A city holds all that we want and a million times what we don't want.”
― David Vann, Aquarium