Amit

“But she must have been a wonderful person, right?” “Was she? Who was it who said loving someone is like having a mental illness that’s not covered by health insurance?”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

“If consumers dematerialize their intensity of use of goods and technicians produce the goods with a lower intensity of impact, people can grow in numbers and affluence without a proportionally greater environmental impact.”52”
― Marian L. Tupy, Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet

“Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come; though they bring all Ireland and her miseries with them. For the whole world is the patrimony of the whole world; there is no telling who does not own a stone in the Great Wall of China.”
― Herman Melville, Redburn

“The inclusion of the Oak King/Holly King cycle into Wicca is really quite modern, with Robert Grave’s The White Goddess and Sir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough as the major sources.”
― Janet Farrar, The Inner Mysteries: Progressive Witchcraft and Connection to the Divine