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“Waste is the true enemy of the planet,”
Ecosystems need apex predators because they elicit dynamic ecological changes that ripple down the food chain, and these are known as ‘trophic cascades.’
When an ecosystem is varied, it is healthy, and everything benefits from a healthy natural ecosystem.”
“If you truly think wolves are the blood spillers, then you’re blind,” I say. “We do that. We are the people killers, the children killers. We’re the monsters.”
“Dad says caring for each other is the only way to care for ourselves and that kindness will save the world.”
He also taught us that compassion was the most important thing we could learn. If someone hurt us, we needed only empathy, and forgiveness would be easy.
We’re not here to consume until everything’s gone—we are custodians, not owners.
It’s just that if you paint a picture of him as a monster then you make him mythical, but men who hurt women are just men. They’re all of us. Too fucking many of us and all too human. And the women they hurt aren’t passive victims, or Freud’s masochists who like to be punished either. They’re all women, and all they’re doing, minute by minute, is strategizing how best to survive the man they loved, and that’s not a thing anyone should have to do.”
How many women have to get killed before we get angry?” My voice breaks. “Why aren’t we all angry? Why aren’t we furious, Duncan?”
I have always worried more about the plight of the predator than its prey. Predators spend their lives starving slowly.
There is cruelty to survive, to fight against, but there is gentleness more than anything, our roots deep and entangled. That is what we hold inside, what we take with us, the way we look after each other.
