Sublime

as if he, too, might have another hundred years or two to document what time hides forever in plain sight.

The boy thinks: Something slow and purposeful wants to turn every human building into soil.

When you have something to prove, you aren’t free. Even though I didn’t yet know anything about his childhood during our first visit, I could tell that Emma’s father was living in a prison of his own making—he was living within a limited image of who he should be.

The thought was disquieting—that our identities should be so mutable, and therefore the course of our lives.

The four highest-impact things an individual can do to tackle climate change are eat a plant-based diet, avoid air travel, live car-free, and have fewer children.

grok

In the early twenty-first century, the average human is far more likely to die from bingeing at McDonald’s than from drought, Ebola or an al-Qaeda attack.