Heather Wahlquist

“As a person, he told me, your biggest problem is other people. You are vulnerable to people, and reliant upon them. But imagine instead that you are a twenty-first-century river, or desert, or polar bear. Your biggest problem is still people. You are still vulnerable to them, and reliant upon them.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“But at sunset, the light travels through the atmosphere longer before it reaches us, so that much of the blue and purple has been scattered away, leaving the sky to our eyes rich in reds and pinks and oranges. As the artist Tacita Dean put it, 'Color is a fiction of light.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“As Anaïs Nin put it, “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

“I have to attend a party—and I say have to because that is my relationship with parties*—I usually research all the known attendees in advance.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet