“All that the Earth may need to soak up enormous, climate-altering quantities of carbon is to be left alone.”
― Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
― Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
“The word is Latin, from monastic ritual dating back to the sixteenth century: adsum. I am here.”
― Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
― Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“We can’t have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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