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"The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible."

The richest 10% of the world population owns 76% of the wealth, takes 52% of the income, and accounts for 48% of global carbon emissions. The poorest 50% of the world gets only 8.5% of the income and accounts for 12% of carbon emissions.

“Money is made up. The planet is real. And yet it’s the made-up thing we bow down to.”

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.
And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”

The biology of forest and the physics of the ocean and atmosphere all create rainfall

Biophilia: innate love of life, “to the degree we come to understand other organisms, we will place a greater value on them, and on ourselves”

I lost the plot

There are so many characters I can’t keep up… but that reveal though??

For some reason I wanted to hate this book in the beginning. Now that I’ve read it I can say this book broke me and the most healing way. The way it navigates the duality of grief and love is heartbreaking and heartwarming. To me it perfectly captures that it’s better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.

“I sit at the center of the universe, and the most brilliant thing I have ever been witness to is love.”

This book is so heartbreakingly beautiful