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“How painful and absurd, this fantasy that your own
labors might in turn be redeemed by strangers centuries and perhaps continents away who would need to hear what you had to whisper, this delusion that you were doing anything other than babbling because you like the sounds it makes, like a child blowing bubbles into milk.”
― Ben Ehrenreich, Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time

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

“If a member of the military can be killed and left in the road, in front of his own house, then who will be safe in this country?”
― Joe Meno, Between Everything and Nothing

“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