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nooo rocky 😭 he's so cute. I feel bad for him. You're not alone anymore!! omg

shit is bonkers

shit is bonkers

"...There's merit in that, given the complex layered interactions, but no excuse. Let's remember that the "system" is led by individuals, by a relatively small number of people, who have names, with more money than God and certainly less compassion... They know the science, they know the consequences, but they proceed with ecocidal business as usual and do it anyway."
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"This ritualized redistribution of wealth was banned by colonial governments under the influence of missionaries in the 1800s. Potlatches were seen as contrary to "the civilized values of accumulation" and undermined the notions of individual property and advancement essential to assimilation to the colonial agenda."

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"Recognizing "enoughness" is a radical act in an economy that is always urging us to consume more. Data tell the story that there are "enough" food calories on the planet for all 8 billion of us to be nourished. And yet people are starving. Imagine the outcome if we each took only enough, rather than far more than our share."

"Dear Bear, it's no use, the world is like that. So stay where you are, and live long. Someday maybe we'll wise up and remember what you were: hopeless ambassador of a world that returns now only in poets' dreams."

"There is a notion that creative people are absentminded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true."

"Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice."

"Unaltered land held an innate harmony, its colors, forms, and lines responding to the ancient dictates of geology, the softening influence of plants and weather. The elegant patterns and arrangements expressed by the wild earth informed our notions of aesthetics. Such land inspired an ineffable sense of awe and wonder, a connection with the divine. This is what I thought of as beauty."

"I wanted to step into the lupine on the crest of the Gallatin Range and keep walking deeper into the backcountry, never to be seen again."
real.

"In the deserted harbor there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ants eat away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools."

"Yes, that is right about power, he said. But there is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power. I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, but desiring only the good of their country, come together to work for it."

"The Poet Dreams of the Mountain" – ...I want to see how many stars are still in the sky / that we have smothered for years now, a century at least. / I want to look back at everything, forgiving it all, / and peaceful, knowing the last thing there is to know. / All that urgency! Not what the earth is about! ...

"How I Go to the Woods" — I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours.

getting back into reading this slowly but surely. so much wisdom 🫶

"There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing... Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't learning-because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so!"

"There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing... Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't learning–because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so!"

Mama: 'Course you going to be a doctor, honey, God willing.
Beneatha: God hasn't got a thing to do with it.

okay maybe ill finish this book another time but i need to let it go for my sanity rn 💔 sorry mrs s

chapter 05 — "...Mr Knightley, I shall not allow you to be a fair judge in this case. You are so much used to live alone that you do not know the value of a companion; and perhaps no man can be a good judge of the comfort a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex after being used to it all her life."

#sisterhood 🎀

chapter 04 — Every day after that they managed to meet in the scrub oaks across the road and talk about when he would be a big ruler of things with her reaping the benefits. Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for the horizon. He spoke for change and chance. Still she hung back. The memory of Nanny was still powerful and strong.

chapter 03 — She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and build a new one by sun-up... She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches."

I'm so excited to reread this omg