“Kilgore Trout Once Wrote A Short Story Which Was A Dialogue Between Two Pieces Of Yeast. They Were

“When we come to it We, this people, on this wayward, floating body Created on this earth, of this earth Have the power to fashion for this earth A climate where every man and every woman Can live freely without sanctimonious piety Without crippling fear

When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world That is when, and only when We come to it.”

- Excerpt from Maya Angelou’s “A Brave and Startling Truth”

Artwork - Kerry James Marshall

"Those writers who have gotten humanity to care about the natural world — which is the world — have done so because they themselves have moved through it with a sense of wonder, each of them an Alice making a Wonderland of Earth. " - Maria Popova in Jonathan Franzen on How to Write About Nature, with a Side of Rachel Carson and Alice in Wonderland

Artwork by Jim Woodring

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” - Carl Sagan  

Our Galaxy’s Magnetic Field Fingerprint https://www.sofia.usra.edu/multimedia/image-galleries/galactic-center

“If there is any hope for the world at all, it does not live in climate-change conference rooms or in cities with tall buildings. It lives low down on the ground, with its arms around the people who go to battle everyday to protect their forests, their mountains and their rivers because they know that the forests, the mountains and the rivers protect them.” - Arundhati Roy

Photo by Luiz Vasconcelos.

Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations. — George Orwell

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Don’t get lost on this planet Earth. Things happen for a reason. - Artist William Tyler

“The greatest threat to democracy would never be an outside enemy but rather malefactors of great wealth who would steal our democracy from within”. - Franklin D. Roosevelt 

Illustration by Edel Rodriguez

I don’t do self-help. I outsource it. - Guy Delancey

“Justice is what love looks like in public.” - Cornell West

Photo by Helen Levitt

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” - Ancient Chinese Proverb

Illustration: Julia Pott