…"She is able to hold the enormous beauty of the world and the suffering simultaneously, and she doesn't let one get out ahead of the other," Patchett said. "We want to do better and to live on the earth in a better way and we don't know what that means, and Margaret tells us. She has shaped our lives."
Because of Renkl's writing, Patchett's yard also grows thick with flowering weeds. "The Comfort of Crows" is full of appeals to put away the leaf blowers and pay attention to the small aggressions we commit each day. She's not asking the reader to save the planet in one fell swoop. She's asking us to do a little bit better.
"The data is devastating," Renkl said of what's happening with our climate. "And yet I have hope because this planet is still just magnificently, breathtakingly beautiful. My hope is that people will recognize that that beauty is so imperiled and will begin to wake up."
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ReplyDeleteI try to maintain hope as well. I think that the article above this one (about Tennesseans objecting to the new bill concerning Tennessee wetlands) is a prime example of people trying to protect the natural beauty around them. However, we must also vote in politicians that will listen to the will of the people and not be bought by big business.
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