Chant the Beauty

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cheap Fuel

Since all of us are in some way the beneficiaries of cheap fossil fuel, tackling climate change has been like trying to build a movement against yourself--it's as if the gay-rights movement had to be constructed entirely from evangelical preachers, or the abolition movement from slaveholders.
--Bill McKibben

His Heaven

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
--Mark Twain

Language

Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.
--Wade Davis

Forgive

My experience is long and my memory is good, and I know that countless times, I have stood in a place diametrically opposed to the path my soul would have me take. And for this, I have had to find a way to forgive myself.
--Suzanne Clothier

33 Times

This was the 33rd time they voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Holding that vote once makes sense. Republicans had promised that much during the 2010 campaign. But 33 times? If doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result makes you insane, what does doing the same thing 33 times and expecting a different result make you?

Well, it makes you the 112th Congress.
--Ezra Klein

Machine

I'm content to regard the Internet as the best and brightest machine ever made by man, but nonetheless a machine with a tin ear and a wooden tongue.
--Lewis Lapham

Getting the Hell Out

It's hard to find anything to say about life without immersing yourself in the world, but it's also just about impossible to figure out what it might be, or how best to say it, without getting the hell out of it again.
--Tim Kreider

Great Things

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.
--Leonard Bernstein

Interpretation

To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation.
--Mark Doty

Not Real Good

My story is such that I'm always kind of waiting for the next trauma around the corner. I'm not real good at celebration. I've never done it well.
--R.A. Dickey

Essence

Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.
--Thomas Pynchon

Hunch

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
--Lily Tomlin

False Separation

The notion of the offline as real and authentic is a recent invention, corresponding with the rise of the online. If we can fix this false separation and view the digital and physical as enmeshed, we will understand that what we do while connected is inseparable from what we do when disconnected.
--Nathan Jurgenson

Desperate

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?
--Henry David Thoreau