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“Whatever the past may have handed on to us, it is up to each one of us to chisel our present out of the shapeless block of the future.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“too many consumerist sirens encouraging you to dash your shopping cart on rocks”
― Laura Lippman, Prom Mom

“Generosity is the mother of ingratitude.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“If people had more understanding of geologic time, we’d be less selfish and greedy, and think about the future.” It almost seems as if Cris is living in a different time-world than the rest of us. The rest of us humans, that is. At the moment of the world’s most urgent extinction crises, he radiates calm. Amid a culture of hurry and hunger, he remains contented. He holds, at once, the in-the-moment present and the far-off future, and faces them both with composed persistence. He is living in turtle time. Turtle people are not your ordinary, run-of-the mill humans. Matt and I are staying at the TSA’s intern guesthouse, an immaculate mobile home on a site where the former occupant raised rats for a living (and whose trailer was eventually relocated”
― Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell