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And now maybe humankind is in the late smash-it-all-up teenage stage of self-harm and nihilism, because we didn’t ask to be alive, we didn’t ask to inherit an earth to look after, and we didn’t ask to be so completely unjustly darkly alone.
“Not a wind, not even a high, exactly, but an elevation. A sense that you had gone beyond yourself and could go farther still.”
― Elevation
― Elevation
“Life should be about curiosity,
wonder and discovery --
not grades.”
― Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson
wonder and discovery --
not grades.”
― Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson
“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“It is not enough
to embrace knowledge
if we are not also willing
to use that knowledge
to benefit the world.”
― Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson
to embrace knowledge
if we are not also willing
to use that knowledge
to benefit the world.”
― Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson
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