Misti

“I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“And so this is the long road the nation traveled to get to Earthday, 1970, and beyond. Those who lead us down it… did not leave us a bad legacy considering the mood in which the continent was settled, and the amount we had to learn, we can be grateful that those battles do not have to be fought, at least not on the same fields, again. We can be just as certain that others will have to be. Environmentalism or conservation or preservation, or whatever it should be called, is not a fact, and never has been. It is a job.”
― Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West

“Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.”
― May Sarton

“One waxes pessimistic? Not so much … There is a pessimism about land which, after it has been with you a long time, becomes merely factual. Men increase; country suffers. Though I sign up with organizations that oppose the process, I sign without great hope.… Islands of wildlife and native flora may be saved, as they should be, but the big, sloppy, rich, teeming spraddle will go. It always has.”
― John Graves, Goodbye to a River: A Narrative