The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

History, like human life, is at once incredibly fast and agonizingly slow.

“Never predict the end of the world. You’re almost certain to be wrong, and if you’re right, no one will be around to congratulate you.”

We are at once far too powerful and not nearly powerful enough. We are powerful enough to radically reshape Earth’s climate and biodiversity, but not powerful enough to choose how we reshape them.

somehow, they still made time to create art, almost as if art isn’t optional for humans.

these songs are made great by the communities singing them. They are assertions of unity in sorrow and unity in triumph: Whether the bubble is flying or bursting, we sing together.

the rare human experience so ubiquitous that the pronouns require no antecedent.

“For anyone trying to discern what to do w/ their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That’s pretty much all the info u need.”

Here’s the plain truth, at least as it has been shown to me: We are never far from wonders.

for the record no individual ever humbly acknowledged anything while referring to themselves as “we.”