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sounds. In stillness one can discover that silence is not silence, and that sound—as a vibration—travels, flies, crosses walls, flows through fences, expands like the beating of a heart, like a constant and ever present pulse.
“There is no antidote, he writes, against the opium of time. The winter sun shows how soon the light fades from the ash, how soon night enfolds us. Hour upon hour is added to the sum. Time itself grows old. Pyramids, arches and obelisks are melting pillars of snow. Not even those who have found a place amidst the heavenly constellations have perpetuated their names: Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osiris in the Dog Star. Indeed, old families last not three oaks.”
― The Rings of Saturn
― The Rings of Saturn
“I am going to live for the color of grass. I am going to keep living because of that”
― A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert
― A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert
“This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Who among us—if it means letting go of the insanity, the mystery, the totally useless beauty of the million once-possible New Yorks—is ready even now to give up hope? BOOK”
― City on Fire
― City on Fire
“On one hand, you couldn’t count on anything; on the other, on any given day, change was vanishingly unlikely.”
― City on Fire
― City on Fire
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