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How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

by Deb Chachra

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Ariel’s Notes & Highlights

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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston

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And even if the jig is up, even if it is really game over, what better time to sing about the earth than when it is critically, even fatally wounded at our hands. Aren’t we more complex, more interesting, more multifaceted people if we do? ...more

20 Feb 19 · Flag

Bonnie Shuster

Oh! I love this...it resonates so much with some of the thinking I have been doing about what we are doing to our beautiful Earth...I look forward to this book.

20 Feb 19 · Flag

Ariel

I think you’ll enjoy it, Bonnie! Something of When Women We’re Birds to it, for sure, but more thoughtful about her environmental philosophy, I think. It really struck a chord with me (starting it nex…

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“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water

tags: environment, nature, wilderness

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“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: meanings, words

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“Please remember: things are not what they seem.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: love, self-love

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“It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.”
― Wallace Stegner

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