Stories
Narratives
"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
— Muriel Rukeyser
“In nature, the more vulnerable the species, the more they tend to rely on high birth rates to ensure their continuity.”
“Of all the paths you take in life,
Make sure a few of them are
through the desert.”
“I can tell you one thing about humans: they will react to the disappearance of a species the way they react to everything else – by putting themselves at the center of the universe.” ― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
When first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90% of its large animals. This was the first significant impact that Homo sapiens had on the planet’s ecosystem. It was not the last. – Yuval Noah Harari
