David Byrd

“When you consider life as a whole, intelligence is a mere bristle on the hog.”
― Bernd Heinrich, A Year in the Maine Woods

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.”
― Rory Stewart, The Places in Between

“What shocks me so is the detachment with which we dispense destruction -- not just bombs, but blows to the head of the earth, to populations of insects, plants, and animals, and to one another with senseless betrayal -- and how the proposed solutions are always mechanistic, as if we could fabricate the health of the planet the way we make a new car.”
― Gretel Ehrlich, Islands, the Universe, Home