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Book cover for The Handmaid's Tale
Having been born in 1939 and come to consciousness during World War II, I knew that established orders could vanish overnight. Change could also be as fast as lightning. It can’t happen here could not be depended on: anything could happen ...more
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Malcolm Gladwell
“If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can’t need social approval to go forward.”
Malcolm Gladwell

“People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them.”
Isabella Tree, Wilding

“children who spent time in green spaces between the ages of seven and twelve tend to think of nature as magical. As adults they are the people most likely to be indignant about lack of nature protection, while those who have had no such experience tend to regard nature as hostile or irrelevant and are indifferent to its loss. By expurgating nature from children's lives we are depriving the environment of its champions for the future.”
Isabella Tree, Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm

Madeline Miller
“You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
Madeline Miller, Circe

“But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resistant to radical ideas.”
Isabella Tree, Wilding

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This reading group is for Catholics and anyone else interested in reading and discussing Catholic literature from devotional and theological writings ...more
660 Green Group — 2004 members — last activity 21 hours, 55 min ago
The Green group is about living in a sustainable manner--how human activity affects the environment and how a changing climate/environment affects how ...more
1084513 Environmental Book Club — 839 members — last activity Jan 25, 2026 09:53AM
A global community of eco-enthusiasts reading books with an environmental theme every 2 months. We made this group to educate ourselves about the int ...more
78569 Nature Literature — 868 members — last activity 17 hours, 35 min ago
Whether it be an in-depth look at our natural world through essays written by past and present authors such as H.D. Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Cars ...more
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