人类世

• 姑妈

  2022-04-30
  I hope you never find yourself on the floor of your kitchen. I hope you never cry in front of your boss desperate with pain. But if you do, I hope they will give you some time off and tell you what Bill told me: Now, more than ever, watch Harvey.
• 姑妈

  2022-04-30
  The big forces of human life--marriage, careers, immigration policy--were pulling us in different directions. But our candle gave a lovely light.
• 姑妈

  2022-04-30
  The photographer Alec Soth has said, "To me, the most beautiful thing is vulnerability." I would go a step further and argue that you cannot see the beauty which is enough unless you make yourself vulnerable to it.
• 姑妈

  2022-04-30
  Like a god, the sun has fearsome and wondrous power. And like a god, the sun is difficult or even dangerous to look at directly. In the Book of Exodus, God says, "You cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live."
• 姑妈

  2022-04-30
  When I see the natural world at its most spectacular, my general impression is that more than anything, it looks fake.
• 姑妈

  2022-04-30
  But I think it is also hard for us to confront human-caused climate change because the most privileged among us, the people who consume the most energy, can separate ourselves from the weather. I am certainly one such person. I am insulated from the weather by my house and its conditioned air. I eat strawberries in January. When it is raining, I can go inside. When it is dark, I can turn on lights. It is easy for me to feel like climate is mostly an outside phenomenon, whereas I am mostly an inside phenomenon.
• 姑妈

  2022-04-30
  The Canada goose is hard to love. But then again, so are most of us.
• 姑妈

  2022-04-30
  Actual spring rain, for instance, seems like it ought to smell at once moist and crisp, like the artificial scent does. But in fact, springtime rain smells earthy and acidic.
• 姑妈

  2022-04-30
  Marveling at the perfection of that leaf, I was reminded that aesthetic beauty is as much about how and whether you look as what you see. From the quark to the supernova, the wonders do not cease. It is our attentiveness that is in short supply, our ability and willingness to do the work that awe requires.
• 姑妈

  2022-04-30
  We were along a ridge, looking down at a forest in the valley below, where a cold haze seemed to hug the forest floor.
• 姑妈

  2022-04-30
  The Destin of Earthseed is to take root among the stars"? These days, I choose to believe that our persistence and our adaptability will allow us to keep changing with the universe for a very, very long time.