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“If Shakespeare was another Barrington—just an allonymous brand, just a gormless frontman—then there had to be a Machiavelli in the background—a cunning architect of an elaborate bibliographical hoax. How could such a thing be done? And what kind of person could pull it off?”
Stuart Kells, Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature

“If we treat our forests right, we can at least ameliorate the declines in forest extent and diversity and the consequent impoverishment of the aesthetic, economic, climatic, and spiritual benefits we count on from them.”
Daniel Mathews, Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change

“I often tell students that we should aspire to be amanuenses to the land: to let the land speak (in all its voices, human and otherwise), then take dictation, and try to get some of the words right.

“How do you know when you get the words right?” they ask.

“You know,” I reply. When we do, the leaves not only speak; they positively sing.”
Robert Michael Pyle, Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essays
tags: nature

“Do all people have one story that haunts them throughout their lives?”
Nessa Rapoport, Evening

Joe Meno
“The sky was as dark as it had ever been. Frozen, exhausted, and out of breath, they fumbled forward together once more. In the end, all they had done was cross from one kind of desolation to another.”
Joe Meno, Between Everything and Nothing

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