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Don’t get lost on this planet Earth. Things happen for a reason. - Artist William Tyler

"What if we are wrong about climate change, and we create a better world for nothing?" - Anonymous

“If there is any hope for the world at all, it does not live in climate-change conference rooms or in cities with tall buildings. It lives low down on the ground, with its arms around the people who go to battle everyday to protect their forests, their mountains and their rivers because they know that the forests, the mountains and the rivers protect them.” - Arundhati Roy

Photo by Luiz Vasconcelos.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clark

Illustration by Frank Kelly Freas

“In times of destruction, create something.” - Maxine Hong Kingston

Painting by Paul Davey. http://www.mattahan.com/

"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

“I don’t think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.” - Scott McCloud

Joan Fontaine reading comics.

"Netflix's programming is based on algorithms, and the results are mixed. Even though HBO spends way less money, they continue to have better programming on average because they stick with their programming philosophy, which is fundamentally trust the artist!" ― John Koblin, On the Media podcast, 12/9/2022

“The middle of the road is a good place to get run over.” - Anonymous

“You experience it to be within your power to stop reading this paragraph. Apparently, you freely decided to continue. Perhaps you are curious how it will unfold. But you strongly sense that you could have done otherwise; you could have stopped reading (and you still can). However, from what we know about the laws of nature, it is not clear how the brain could control a neural process that would result in different outcomes when starting from the same brain state. It is also unclear how your interest in the contents of this paragraph led to the neural process that culminated in you reading it.” - Uri Maoz

Illustration by Paolo Uberti.

https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/uri-maoz

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/