“We all temporarily inhabit a planet of microbes, and we are guests here. Eventually they will have the planet to themselves again. They have been around before us and will persist long after us. The question is not how to fit them into our worlds, but how we can fit into theirs.”
― Clean: The New Science of Skin
― Clean: The New Science of Skin
“I look at Wolfgang and I see someone smart and kind," says Andrew. "I want him to be critical, but not at the expense of camaraderie. His compassion and his intelligence are complex enough to allow for both if we just don't--"
"Don't what?"
"If we don't get in his way.”
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"Don't what?"
"If we don't get in his way.”
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“In a certain mood, the earth itself can seem a ouija board, calling out its advice, discharging symbol after symbol, relentless and malevolent, though to ordinary eyes nothing more has happened than a single back and white bird winging down the sky.”
― To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
― To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“Meaning wasn’t in me, meaning wasn’t in another, meaning arose in the encounter between us.”
― The Morning Star
― The Morning Star
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