“The Ratio Of CEO Pay To Average Worker Pay Was 25:1 In 1960. Today It’s 320:1.” - Lynn Forester

Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations. — George Orwell

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“We have to explore to survive. As soon as we have traces of life, if you don’t diversify your environment, if as a little bacteria you don’t jump to the next rock, you don’t give yourself the best chance to survive. Staying put means death. It is true physically, spiritually and intellectually.” - Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol, The SETI Institute

Photography by Linden Gledhill 

This is the beginning of the healing from the addiction – the addiction to oil, the addiction to consumerism, the addiction to that lifestyle which leaves you strung out, feeling miserable and lonely. There is more work to be done. - Doug Good Feather

Don’t get lost on this planet Earth. Things happen for a reason. - Artist William Tyler

“When we come to it We, this people, on this wayward, floating body Created on this earth, of this earth Have the power to fashion for this earth A climate where every man and every woman Can live freely without sanctimonious piety Without crippling fear

When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world That is when, and only when We come to it.”

- Excerpt from Maya Angelou’s “A Brave and Startling Truth”

Artwork - Kerry James Marshall

“If there is any hope for the world at all, it does not live in climate-change conference rooms or in cities with tall buildings. It lives low down on the ground, with its arms around the people who go to battle everyday to protect their forests, their mountains and their rivers because they know that the forests, the mountains and the rivers protect them.” - Arundhati Roy

Photo by Luiz Vasconcelos.

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” - Anais Nin

"[The news] is like that friend you have — who always sees the worst in everything. You go out for coffee and feel empty afterward. Finally, you stop going. So what would be better? I make the case for routinely and systematically reporting out hope, agency and dignity in every story." — Amanda Ripley https://www.amandaripley.com/blog/i-have-a-secret-i-hid-it-for-years

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” - Ancient Chinese Proverb

Illustration: Julia Pott

“We must break free from the economic model that’s rigged against the majority." - Winnie Byanyima

Photo by Thomas Tham.