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Book cover for Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
In the beginning there was the Skyworld. She fell like a maple seed, pirouetting on an autumn breeze.* A column of light streamed from a hole in the Skyworld,
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Elif Shafak
“it seems to him that what they call civilization is, in truth, a storm in waiting. Powerful, protean and perfectly destructive, sooner or later it will burst free of its barriers and engulf everything in its insatiable path.”
Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

Elif Shafak
“Hatred is a poison served in three cups. The first is when people despise those they desire—because they want to have them in their possession. It’s all out of hubris! The second is when people loathe those they do not understand. It’s all out of fear! Then there is the third kind—when people hate those they have hurt.” “But why?” “Because the tree remembers what the axe forgets.” “What does that mean?” “It means it’s not the harmer who bears the scars, but the one who has been harmed.”
Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

Richard Powers
“Dr. Sylvia Earle, especially as recounted in Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans. Helen Czerski’s The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works got me thinking larger. And the symphonic cuttlefish comes from Peter Godfrey-Smith’s extraordinary Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness.”
Richard Powers, Playground

Elif Shafak
“There are extraordinary people who appear unexpectedly on our paths, and, just as suddenly, they disappear, leaving their indelible marks and a sense of regret. Brief and bright, like a match striking a flame in the dark, they heat the damp kindling of our hearts and then they are gone.”
Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

Richard Powers
“It came to her that this was why she had always shied away from human love. To give it was always to incur a growing obligation: someone else’s gratitude.”
Richard Powers, Playground

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