Colonizers did this until there were only 27 bison left. TWENTY-SEVEN. All bison today are descendants of those 27. I do not want to hear anything more about looting, you cannot compare a walmart to an entire species. Pure evil.
the pigeon doesn’t understand your disdain for it; it coos for you anyway. the tree does not know you own an axe for it; its leaves sway in the sun anyway. the starving cat eats the poison you put out. it doesn’t know how not to trust. the earth forgives you, in spite of yourself
For the world which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new. Hath really neither joy nor love nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain. And we are here as on a darkling plane, swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
It cannot be overstated the fact that we’re all gonna die for the wealth of like 1000 people max. When the collapse happens, just keep those people in mind.
I could learn all the knowledge in this world, travel to places beyond the horizons of what the most precious telescopes can see, and I would forget it all if it meant I could spend another Sunday morning with you.