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“I believed what my father told me. Stories do more than comfort. They take you away and bring you back better made.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“Ecosystems are so similar to human societies—they’re built on relationships. The stronger those are, the more resilient the system. And since our world’s systems are composed of individual organisms, they have the capacity to change. We creatures adapt, our genes evolve, and we can learn from experience. A system is ever changing because its parts—the trees and fungi and people—are constantly responding to one another and to the environment. Our success in coevolution—our success as a productive society—is only as good as the strength of these bonds with other individuals and species. Out of the resulting adaptation and evolution emerge behaviors that help us survive, grow, and thrive.”
― Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
― Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
“Sadie, do you see this? This is a persimmon tree! This is my favorite fruit." Marx picked a fat orange persimmon from the tree, and he sat down on the now termite-free wooden deck, and he ate it, juice running down his chin. "Can you believe our luck?" Max said. "We bought a house with a tree that has my actual favorite fruit!"
Sam used to say that Marx was the most fortunate person he had ever met - he was lucky with lovers, in business, in looks, in life. But the longer Sadie knew Marx, the more she thought Sam hadn't truly understood the nature of Marx's good fortune. Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty. It was impossible to know - were persimmons his favorite fruit, or had hey just now become his favorite fruit because there they were, growing in his own backyard? He had certainly never mentioned persimmons before.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Sam used to say that Marx was the most fortunate person he had ever met - he was lucky with lovers, in business, in looks, in life. But the longer Sadie knew Marx, the more she thought Sam hadn't truly understood the nature of Marx's good fortune. Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty. It was impossible to know - were persimmons his favorite fruit, or had hey just now become his favorite fruit because there they were, growing in his own backyard? He had certainly never mentioned persimmons before.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“A good idea has a habit of showing up again and again.”
― The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
― The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
“The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity.”
― Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
― Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
Oprah's Book Club (Official)
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Welcome to the official Oprah's Book Club group. OBC is the interactive, multi-platform reading club bringing passionate readers together to discuss i ...more
TerraLuna
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Find out what other TerraLuna members are reading. Talk. Debate. Agree. Disagree. Find words and sentences that are magical, inspiring, connecting.
OPSEquityDiversity Book Club
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These are great books for examining the multiple narratives and perspectives of our great and diverse world.
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