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“Scholars think of research of a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can, what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions you may as well leave the information in the text.”

Favorite lines thus far:

“Love’s pure free joy when I works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan shark prices.”

“I think about pinball and how being a kid’s like being shot up the firing lane and there’s no veering left or right; you’re just sort of propelled. But once you clear the top, suddenly there’s a thousand different paths you can take.”

The listening experience on this book is quite nice.

This book is a wonderful examination of how climate change looks on a small scale. The author discusses the impacts of climate change related to the tree on his own street and then relates it to the larger issues at hand in the world. Also included are solutions that we as humans can take to help combat climate change such as electric cars, underground heat/cool pump systems, and non gas appliances.