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  • #1
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

  • #2
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #3
    Henry David Thoreau
    “What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
    Henry David Thoreau, Familiar letters

  • #4
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”
    Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

  • #5
    “The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.”
    Gaylord Nelson

  • #6
    Martha Wells
    “I was having an emotion, and I hate that.”
    Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

  • #7
    Rebecca Yarros
    “My breath catches and my body warms, the traitorous bitch. You are not attracted to toxic men, I remind myself, and yet, here I am, getting all attracted.”
    Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

  • #8
    Scott Lynch
    “I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his fucking tongue cut out, and the stump cauterized."

    Everyone in the room stared at him.

    "I called him an asshole, too," said Locke. "He didn't like that.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

  • #9
    Scott Lynch
    “A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”
    Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

  • #10
    Andy Weir
    “I penetrated the outer cell membrane with a nanosyringe."
    "You poked it with a stick?"
    "No!" I said. "Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.”
    Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

  • #11
    R.F. Kuang
    “Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
    R.F. Kuang, Babel

  • #12
    R.F. Kuang
    “That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
    R.F. Kuang, Babel

  • #13
    Becky Albertalli
    “It's like there's this idea that you have to earn your label through suffering. And then you have to prove it with who you date, how you dress, how other people perceive you.”
    Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

  • #14
    Becky Albertalli
    “It feels bigger than I want it to be. Do I really have to announce this? Can't I just feel something and live inside it while it's happening and not analyze it to death?”
    Becky Albertalli, Imogen, Obviously

  • #15
    John Green
    “Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
    John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

  • #16
    John Green
    “It reminded me, that when we know about suffering, when we are proximal to it, we are capable of extraordinary generosity. We can do and be so much for each other. But only when we see one another in our full humanity. Not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world.”
    John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection



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