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Like reforestation, species reintroductions, and the planting of oyster reefs, it’s part of what the historian Thomas Berry described as humanity’s Great Work: “moving the human project from its devastating exploitation to a benign presence.”
To return to the monkey and the fish story, all we have to offer in the end is to get into the water with those in need, not to bring them into the tree with us.
The Yamas & Niyamas
Deborah Adele
Other worlds may harbor beings thankful for their silvery lakes of mercury and drifting clouds of ammonia. They may be delighted that their planet doesn’t shake them silly with its grinding plates or spew messy gobs of lava over the landscape, but rather exists in a permanent nontectonic tranquility.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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