What is a Glacier? Quotes

“I check out another kind of book: A Year to Live. It's a Buddhist manual on preparing to die. It's written by a Buddhist chaplain who has worked with many people who know that their death is imminent. He says that most people think that if they found out they had a year to live, they'd go off on a grand adventure. But in reality, people tend to finish what they've started, to try and tie up loose ends.

I am coming to terms with my own mortality at the same time as that of the planet. Someday, my father might die. My mother will die. There are people I have loved who I may never see again. And, more uncommonly, all the glaciers may melt.”
― Sophie Yanow, What is a Glacier?

“I check out another kind of book: A Year to Live. It's a Buddhist manual on preparing to die. It's written by a Buddhist chaplain who was has worked with many people who know that their death is imminent. He says that most people think that if they found out they had a year to live, they'd go off on a grand adventure. But in reality, people tend to finish what they've started, to try and tie up loose ends.

I am coming to terms with my own mortality at the same time as that of the planet. Someday, my father might die. My mother will die. There are people I have loved who I may never see again. And, more uncommonly, all the glaciers may melt.”
― Sophie Yanow, What is a Glacier?