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When you donate used clothing to a local charity, it’s typically sold in bulk back to the developing world.
“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“He knew the weather did not make a place what it was; it only helped to change people’s moods and sometimes to make things more bearable. In the end, it was all just mood lighting, painting over the grey truths of this dreary canvas of a town.”
― A Departure
― A Departure
“These conditions affect millions all over the world everyday. We’re essentially refugees from a natural disaster. It’s not quite the apocalypse. We’re no different to the millions fleeing a war zone or a volcanic eruption, it just happens that we’re on an island and have become cut off from the rest of the world, but that’s not to say we won’t reconnect. When we do we will have learnt something from all of this, and that is the most important thing, what we carry with us. It is through our studying and a hope to better understand our world that we can adapt,”
― A Departure
― A Departure
“The great American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ‘It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.’ You don’t need a long lifetime to make an impact on this world. You just need the will to do so.”
― The Measure
― The Measure
“This sort of thing has to be worldwide. It’s not surprising, the amount of rubbish we pump into the atmosphere and dump into the sea, the animals we’ve driven to extinction and forests we’ve destroyed. It’s not surprising the planet would want to get rid of us. The Ice Age did a good job of it before, but we crept back, surviving epidemics and pandemics, multiplying and spreading across the surface of the planet. Punching holes in the atmosphere and throwing bombs at each other so we can become richer. Human beings are the most selfish race this planet has ever known, and it’s all because we’ve outsmarted everything else. Still, we couldn’t stop this thing, that’s how smart we really are. We’re nothing in the grand scheme of things,” he said, pointing to the stars that shone through the window. “Human life is but a twinkle in the eye of the universe. Our lives can be snatched away as easily as they’re given.”
― A Departure
― A Departure
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