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"A: Te înţeleg bine? Cauţi? Unde se află, în mijlocul lumii reale de astăzi, ungherul tău, steaua ta? Unde te poţi aşeza la soare aşa încât să ai şi tu un prisos de bine şi existenţa ta să se justifice?

B: Nu sunt căutător, eu vreau mai mult. Vreau să creez pentru mine un soare propriu."

"Există o fericire profundă şi temeinică în faptul că ştiinţa descoperă lucruri care rezistă şi care constituie mereu temelia unor noi descoperiri."

Ce poate fi mai frumos decât un filozof artist îndrăgostit de știință?

"Cry because we cannot even begin to understand how beautiful it is, cry because we are terribly flawed as a species, cry because it all seems so shockingly improbable that maybe our existence could be nothing but a dreamscape—celestial elephants in rooms without walls."

Huh...

“You fight how you train.

You do everything how you do one thing.

Dreams are built on discipline; discipline is built on habits; habits are built on training. And training takes place in every single second and every situation of your life. You either do your best all the time or you don’t; if the behavior has not been trained and practiced, then the switch will not be there when you need it.”

"We were the yin to each other’s yang; we filled in the gaps in each other’s life experience. We saw each other’s blind spots and augmented each other’s deficiencies.

We compensated for each other’s weaknesses.

Both of us were wildly deficient, but together we made one really capable person."

"All fantasies eventually fail. No matter how hard you fight, the truth is undefeated."

Was this fantasy?

"We were the yin to each other’s yang; we filled in the gaps in each other’s life experience. We saw each other’s blind spots and augmented each other’s deficiencies.

We compensated for each other’s weaknesses.

Both of us were wildly deficient, but together we made one really capable person."

"All fantasies eventually fail. No matter how hard you fight, the truth is undefeated."

Was this fantasy?

"I know we’ve left scars everywhere, and that our obsessive desire to make and have and do and say and go and get —six of the seven most common verbs in English—may ultimately steal away our ability to be, the most common verb in English."

"Sistemele reale care încep să cedeze sunt solurile, pădurile, atmosfera şi ciclurile nutriţionale. Iar noi suntem cei responsabili de acest lucru. Nu am dezvoltat nicăieri în Vest (şi mă îndoiesc că s-a întâmplat undeva, cu excepţia zonelor tribale) vreun sistem sustenabil în domeniul agriculturii sau al pădurilor. Nu avem un sistem. Haideţi să vedem despre ce este vorba."

Simțiți și voi entuziasmul meu arzător?

"I don’t buy the romantic notion that scientific understanding somehow robs the universe of its beauty, but I still can’t find language to describe how breathtakingly beautiful sunsets are—not breathtakingly, actually, but breath-givingly beautiful.

I’m stopped cold by its splendor, and I feel my absurd smallness. You’d think that would be sad, but it isn’t. It only makes me grateful."

A(nother) kindred spirit...

"We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.

Here is my attempt to do so."

This book... It's love at first sight, I mean page.

"FOOD

Think of the causes of global warming, and fossil fuel energy probably comes to mind. Less conspicuous are the consequences of breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

The food system is elaborate and complex.

If you add to livestock all other food related emissions—from farming to deforestation to food waste—what we eat turns out to be the number one cause of global warming."

Omg omg omg omg!! This is huge...

To save the planet and ourselves we need to be on a war footing – we need to engage every part of our society in the battle against climate change and environment destruction.

I want this book to be read by everyone – because I honestly believe that together we can make this a better, safer, healthier planet for all humanity.

„Preț de o bătaie de inimă, am rămas singuri în univers.”

Când te întorci acasă și nimic nu mai e la fel, revii la seria cu care ai petrecut atâtea nopți în camera ta, sperând să reînvii măcar un pic din vechea fericire...

"Perhaps one day the concept of factory farming will be consigned to therapists’ chairs!

We could reverse the current trend to deforest land for agriculture and instead free up large areas for agro-ecology, or re-wilding.

This also offers another possibility: the chance for us to re-engage with the natural world in new, more profound, and wilder ways, and maybe even get our fingernails dirty."

"To live and never to understand the strange and beautiful mysteries of the human mind is to make a tragedy of our lives."

"A key characteristic of social entrepreneurs is that they leave their egos at the door. So when thinking about your passions, streghts and weaknesses, think of them in the context of assessing yourself as a resource for others.

Where could you best serve?"

"Love was why we fought all our battles. Love was what we lived and died for. Love was what we dreamed of as we slept. Love was the air we wanted to breathe in when we woke to greet the day. Love was a torch you carried to lead you out of darkness. Love took you out of exile and carried you to a country called Belonging."

Omg omg omg omg!!!! How incredibly beautiful and profound this sequel is just from the epigraph

"Din perspectiva noastră orbitală, observăm în mod clar că ceva nu este în regulă. Organismele dominante își distrug stratul de ozon și pădurile, își erodează solul și fac uriașe experimente necontrolate cu clima propriei planete. Nu au observat ce se întâmplă? Nu le pasă de propriul destin? Nu sunt oare capabile să lucreze împreună spre binele mediului care le susține?"

"Și apoi, în cele din urmă, într-un moment nedeslușit, durerea din inimă fu absorbită precum apa în nisip. Tot acolo era, dar în adânc."

"... unele vise trebuie lăsate să se destrame."

Nu știu dacă există o lectură mai plăcută ca aceasta în zorii unei dimineți de toamnă...

Nu știu dacă poate exista o lectură mai plăcută că aceasta în zorii unei dimineți de toamnă...

"In a future world where carbon pollution is priced appropriately to prevent
catastrophic climate change, we will be interested in ANY power scheme
that can at low cost put extra carbon down a hole in the ground."

Nicio altă carte nu m-a făcut să vreau să trăiesc în ea la fel de mult ca aceasta...

Gosh I adore this book!!

"It was like water after a drought, shelter in a storm - they were the still point of the turning world and every other stupid sloppy cliché you could think of."

"We need to look after one another. If we don’t, we have nothing worth protecting at all.”