Thomas Unterkircher
@tomchen
Thomas Unterkircher
An Embrace
I first encountered Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass, in the ecology section of my local bookstore.
When I bought it, I had little idea how much it would change my life. What made Braiding Sweetgrass unlike anything I had ever read was the way Kimmerer wove stories together with science, reminding me of the importance of sheer lyricis... See more
When I bought it, I had little idea how much it would change my life. What made Braiding Sweetgrass unlike anything I had ever read was the way Kimmerer wove stories together with science, reminding me of the importance of sheer lyricis... See more
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Security Check - Orion Magazine
People fall out of love when they lose faith in the story the other person is writing. You wake up one day and think: why am I trapped inside this narrative? I don’t even like your prose.
Ava • tension and flow
The tutorial to make better spreadsheets was pretty sick
"Some books leave
us free and some
books make us
free.!"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their Sweetn
... See moreWe have a saying in Afrikaans that translates to "you are missing someone you don't know". And we usually say it when someone has unexplained sadness.
That’s the very reason they put rubbers on the end of pencils... because people make mistakes.
– Phoebe Waller-Bridge