Book: The End of the End of the Earth

... No matter how skillfully one slices life into a series of pictures, no matter how close these pictures may be in time, each time this sequence mainly tells me what did not enter it.

Sitting in the wardroom of a cruise ship that burns three and a half gallons of fuel a minute, we listened to Adam extolling the benefits of grocery shopping at farmers' markets and replacing incandescent bulbs with LEDs.

I was under the impression that the other people in the cabin understood the meaning of visiting Antarctica better than I did. That sense seemed to be to bring home the images.

Sometimes it's helpful to focus on something tiny to get rid of the postmodern context– narrowing your field of view, so to speak.

The main thing in games is not to think about the reasons why you are participating in them. At the heart of everything is a gaping void, the closest relative of nothingness lurking beneath the surface of our busy existence.

10. Fall in love, and only then will you receive the right to ruthlessness.

The strangeness of beauty is that its absence makes us less sympathetic than other shortcomings. ... Beauty drowns out indignation with privileges.

The older I get, the more I assert myself in the opinion that the writer's works of fiction are nothing more than a mirror of his character.

[To the writer] You can travel all over the world, go through a lot of adventures, but if you write badly, all this is worthless.

Because of the attractive, idealized images that people have created for themselves using social media, their true essence has been isolated. They are constantly in touch with someone, but they are afraid of talking face to face and are anxious (sometimes nostalgic) that they are missing something important.

Animals are not able to thank us for letting them live, and, of course, they would not do this to us if they changed places with us. But it is not they, but we who need life to have meaning.

Only treating nature as a collection of special habitats under threat, and not as something abstract and "dying", can prevent the complete destruction of nature on the globe.

The story can be told in one hundred and forty signs: we extract carbon from the earth and send carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and if we don't stop doing this, we will be bad.

Love is a better motivator than guilt.