War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?