“What if we are wrong about climate change, and we create a better world for nothing?” - Anonymous
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light." — Joseph Pulitzer
Artwork by Steve Powers
“You deserve to take up space.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Artwork by Pamela Phatsimo
“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.” - Mark Twain
Illustration by Juan Carlos Paz
“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
"Events come and go like waves of a fever. We - and the journalists - live in a state of continual delirium, constantly waiting for the next news event to loom out of the fog - and then disappear again, unexplained. And the formats - in news and documentaries - have become so rigid and repetitive that the audiences never really look at them.” - Adam Curtis http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis
Illustrations by Edel Rodriguez.
“The middle of the road is a good place to get run over.” - Anonymous
"The world’s most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a small amount of goods, nor a relation between means and ends. Above all it is a relation between people.” - Marshall Sahlins
Photo by Megan Laws
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” - Ancient Chinese Proverb
Illustration: Julia Pott
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” - David Bowie
Teenagers have been deformed by social media. There's a sense they fit, but not as agents, not as full human beings who are making a future for themselves. They fit as human fodder that has been sucked into a machine and molded to what the machine wants out of them, which is their attention. — Jonathan Haidt from Our Kids Are the Least Generation Flourishing We Know Of
Image by Bill Watterson
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jonathan-haidt.html
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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