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“Do all people have one story that haunts them throughout their lives?”
― Evening
― Evening
“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.”
― Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
― Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
“We have no choice but to scramble to retrace our steps and to try, in a hurry now, to imagine things differently: other worlds, other ways of thinking, living, seeing. Other ways of writing, and of reading.”
― Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
― Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
“In planting trees, aim to perpetuate an ecosystem, not a plantation.”
― Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
― 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.”
― Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essays
“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.”
― Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essays
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