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“You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.”
― The Word for World Is Forest
― The Word for World Is Forest
“I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“But even the most unmissionary soul, unless he pretend he has no emotions, is sometimes faced with a choice between commission and omission. 'What are they doing?' abruptly becomes, 'What are we doing?' and then, 'What must I do?”
― The Word for World Is Forest
― The Word for World Is Forest
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