Kindle Notes & Highlights
“We need solutions to an array of problems. But nature has already solved most of those problems through evolution. Energy production, resource distribution, water collection, waste management. The list goes on,” Mara said. “Nature is like the Library of Alexandria, but instead of scrolls there are natural models. We just need to learn its language. Unfortunately, your time doesn’t have the tools needed to unlock that language fast enough. And in my time, well, we learned that lesson after the library had already burned down.”
“I’ll have to strike a balance. The best path forward I can think of is to use materials from your time to build new and better tools. Tools that others can build—not just me—and adapt if necessary. That’s how we’ll scale. But we’re going to need to do lots of experiments and get lots of people involved.”
“Crazy, right? He’s been like this ever since he got up yesterday. He even asked if I wanted to play catch.” Scout shook his head. “With a knife?” Lula asked.
“One thing we all share—we’re optimists. Am I right? Because we have to be. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have chosen farming as a profession. For many of us, if we’re not fighting a changing climate, we’re fighting Big Ag or policies that promote bad decisions for the land and ourselves. It doesn’t have to be this way. And I genuinely believe this group here, along with thousands of other small sustainable groups just like ours, can help turn agriculture around before it’s too late. Can help transform our trade and our relationship with the soil, and in the process make the world a healthier and
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From this height, towns and cities became gray, crystal-like formations with sharp edges and odd lines. Roads and highways ran like threads, connecting the cities, until they blended into a landscape of green and brown, and signs of civilization began to lose their edges.
just a continuum of land and water. She had always prided herself on being a person of the world, but she never felt that physical reality like she did at this moment. She was an inhabitant of this entire planet, not a square on the map.
How could so much exist within that delicate shell—all of her life and everyone and everything she had ever known contained within its limits?
Anna could feel the physical absence of the connection she had grown so accustomed to over the past months—to the dozens of sensors, to her iCom, to Mara, and, especially now, to SID. A small trace of those connections remained like a phantom limb.
But the future wasn’t inevitable, she would remind Jack and herself as they walked hand in hand. It was just a cautionary tale that shed light on the substantial work ahead.
