Twice Alive
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If lichen ecology has more to do with collaboration than competition, it’s nevertheless true that collaboration is transformative.
“we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“It is when one is alone that one begins to observe Nature and to love her.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“He had collapsed like a rotten tree.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hours’ bombardment unscathed. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“Every consumer has the right to know who produces their clothing and under what conditions, whether it be labor conditions or environmental, just like the ingredients written on the food packaging that you buy.” —Anannya Bhattacharjee, Asia Floor Wage Alliance, and Garment and Allied Workers Union”
― Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism
― Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism
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