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“we should all carry two slips of paper in our pockets: one that says “I am ashes and dust,” and one that reads “The world was made for me.”
― Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

“I had discovered that I am the kind of person who cannot live comfortably, tolerably, on all-flat terrain. For the sake of inner equilibrium there has to be at least one mountain range on at least one of the four quarters of my horizon-and not more than a day’s walk away.”
― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

“Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before the way is found or followed.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

“Over human timescales, however, our disruption of geography will haunt us. Soil lost to erosion, coastal areas claimed by the sea, and mountaintops sacrificed on the altar of capitalism won't be restored in our lifetime. And these alterations will set in motion a cascade of side effects--hydrologic, biological, social, economic, and political--that will define the human agenda for centuries.”
― Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World