No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

by Ursula K. Le Guin

We think we wish to join the wild animals in the jungle but will not tolerate the wild animals in our kitchens. There are too many ants, we think, reaching for the spray, when it is equally true that there are too many humans.

if citizens can’t be asked to refrain from steak on Tuesdays, how can industries and corporations be asked to refrain from the vast and immediate profits they make from destabilizing the climate and destroying the environment?

If piano is the opposite of forte, graceful chitchat with strangers is definitely my piano.

I might steal this one.