Hope vs. Climate Chaos

“The human epistemologies, the six thousand spoken ways of knowing God, are like the six thousand ways a river can run down from high country to low, like the six thousand ways dawn might break over the Atacama, the Tanami, the Gobi, or the Sonoran … Each place is itself only, and nowhere repeated. Miss it and it's gone.” - Barry Lopez, from Embrac

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts”

- Marcus Aurelius

“Power is the currency of change, and policy is merely frozen power.” - David Rolf

"Festina lente - Make haste, slowly"- Greek and Latin proverb, adopted by Augustus and commonly attributed to him.

“Over and over again, the world has been changed by people who, at the outset, seemed far too puny to pit themselves against the most powerful institutions of their time” - Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young Lutunatabua

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, ages: it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzsche

“As climactic change begins to affect long-range strategic planning for human survival, as the Earth's stocks of pelagic food fish plummet, as dry-land aquifers are drained, we can easily believe we've been shortsighted in a loss of intimacy with place, in largely ignoring the impact geography has on our daily lives.” Barry Lopez from embrace fearl

“As climactic change begins to affect long-range strategic planning for human survival, as the Earth's stocks of pelagic food fish plummet, as dry-land aquifers are drained, we can easily believe we've been shortsighted in a loss of intimacy with place, in largely ignoring the impact geography has on our daily lives.” Barry Lopez from embrace fearl

“Hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency." - Rebecca Solnit

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi