At Home on an Unruly Planet Quotes

“I have taken one main lesson from observing the struggles of Richmond and other communities like it: we think of power as belonging only to a select few, those who rule the world and those who own most of the wealth. But there is a kind of power that grows from the ground around you. Power can come from community. Power can come from home—from knowing that we belong to a place and a planet, and it is our collective job to grow something useful here and to create space for the generations that come after us.”
― Madeline Ostrander, At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth

“So many stories about disaster close the curtain before you see what happens
afterward. Especially in this era of catastrophe, we can always distract
ourselves with the next fire, the next flood, the next tragedy—ride
the crest of the drama without asking what happens in the years after
a place burns. But it seemed especially important to me to understand
what makes it possible for people to recover in this era of more common
disasters.”
― Madeline Ostrander, At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth