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career in flying was like climbing one of those ancient Babylonian pyramids made up of a dizzy progression of steps and ledges, a ziggurat, a pyramid extraordinarily high and steep; and the idea was to prove at every foot of the way up that
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“That’s how the world is divided now: the places that still function, and the places that don’t. Florida doesn’t. Their local governments are dissolving, their infrastructure crumbling. Louisiana is fading, too. The Outer Banks of North Carolina are gone entirely. The Bahamas. Indonesia. More will follow.”
― The Light Pirate
― The Light Pirate
“The light flows in every direction. It is composed of many minds, many eyes. It is one creature, and it is many. An awareness that grows and deepens. An intelligence that is made to join and join and join. This is how life began; this is how it goes on living.”
― The Light Pirate
― The Light Pirate

“The bottom line is this. To care about climate change, you only need to be one thing, and that’s a person living on planet Earth who wants a better future. Chances are, you’re already that person—and so is everyone else you know.”
― Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
― Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

“You can't fix someone who is determined to stay broken.”
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
― Remarkably Bright Creatures

“My death is imminent. But I am not dead yet.”
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
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