The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
for many forms of life, humanity is the apocalypse.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Just the act of looking at something can ruin it, I guess.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
it may seem odd that the world’s most popular football song comes from musical theater. But football is theater, and fans make it musical theater.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
In the years since I’d been a book reviewer, everyone had become a reviewer, and everything had become a subject for reviews.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
the hand stencils also remind us that humans of the past were as human as we are. Their hands were indistinguishable from ours.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“Change,” Octavia Butler wrote, “is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe.”
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“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.”
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Here’s the plain truth, at least as it has been shown to me: We are never far from wonders.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.”