(Sam) Jolyon

“In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.”
― Baba Dioum

“There is a whole culture in the United States—a growing one, it seems—that consciously walls out facts it doesn’t want to know. These facts cluster together: evolution by natural selection; climate change; our society’s growing recognition of equal rights for all persons; the citizen’s responsibilities to the citizenry; the damage humans have done to natural systems and our duty to try to heal them.”
― Thomas McNamee, The Killing of Wolf Number Ten: The True Story

“He had tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.”
― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

“This will brand you as a member of the “fact-based community,” and if, as is likely, your interlocutor is a member of the “faith-based community,” no amount of mere fact is going to get you anywhere.”
― Thomas McNamee, The Killing of Wolf Number Ten: The True Story