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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 95 percent of the world’s calories now come from 30 species.13 Of 30,000 edible plant species, we cultivate about 150.14 And of the more than 30 birds and
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“We carry the lives we've imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost.”
― H is for Hawk
― H is for Hawk
“The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate.”
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]”
― H is for Hawk
― H is for Hawk
“We need to stop thinking that some Americans are the real Americans, the deserving, the talented, the most patriotic and hardworking, while other can be dismissed as less deserving of the American dream.”
― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
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Jen’s 2025 Year in Books
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