In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.
You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.
There is no such thing as away. When you throw something away, it must go somewhere.
Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $ 10,000 sandwich?
We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way to live together - justly, respectfully, sustainably, joyfully - on the only planet we can call home.
Recycling is what we do when we're out of options to avoid, repair, or reuse the product first. Firstly: Reduce. Don't buy what we don't need. Repair: Fix stuff that still has life in it. Reuse: Share. Then, only when you've exhausted those options, recycle.
Everywhere I go, I meet people ready for change. People who are fed up with the exhaustion that comes from devoting one's life to the work-watch-spend treadmill. People who know in their hearts that it's wrong to treat the planet and whole groups of people as disposable. People who are challenging the bogus stories we've been fed for years and are writing their own about hope and love and working together to build a better future for everyone.
Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.
He had never realized, while Elspeth was alive, the extent to which a thing had not completely happened until he told her about it.
Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars. . . that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.
I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!