Ashley

“To live in paradise is to be reminded how little you can afford it.”
― Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

“Communities have their own stories, and those stories are contagious.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Revenge of the Tipping Point

“The mosaic is so rich and varied that a hiker who descends from the highest point on the North Rim to the lowest point inside the canyon will pass through a spectrum of life equivalent to moving from the cool boreal forests of subarctic Canada to the sunstruck deserts of Mexico that lie just above the Tropic of Cancer—thereby compressing a distribution of plants and animals that typically stretch over more than two thousand horizontal miles into a single vertical mile.”
― Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

“That’s the revenge of the Tipping Point: The very same tools we use to build a better world can also be used against”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering