"What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200 species a day. That's 73,000 a year. This culture is oblivious to their passing, feels entitled to their every last niche, and there is no roll call on the nightly news."

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Source : Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.20, Seven Stories Press

Lierre Keith

#Grief Quotes #Years Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.”

Source : Gwen Bristow (2014). “Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel”, p.53, Open Road Media
“Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.”

Source : Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.9, Modern Library
“Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.”
“Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.”

Source : William Wharton (2014). “The Complete Collection”, p.104, HarperCollins UK
“Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.”
“To win, I'd run over Joe's mom too.”
“Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.”
“Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?”

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