“Why is Wi-Fi free at cheap hotels but $14 a night at expensive ones.”

“I actually prefer Abby," she said."I'm sorry?""Nobody calls me Abigail unless it's my mom and she's mad.”

“Okay, Eliza. Now–you know–rise up! Think about those buffalos," Abby said."Walking backward," added Ben."Wearing diapers!" Ricky reminded her, giggling with glee."I know how to do it!" Eliza snapped.”

“If you really want to be totally accurate about it, the day that really changed Abby's life wasn't the day she discovered her power.It was the day Ben sang to her in the Telekinesis lab.”

“Soul and habitat--we are finally in a position to know this--are correlates of one another.”

“The destructive impulse with respect to nature all too often has psychological causes that go beyond the greed for material resource or the need to domesticate an environment. There is too often a deliberate rage and vengefulness at work in the assault on nature and its species, as if one would project onto the natural world the intolerable anxieties of finitude which hold humanity hostage to death. ”

“When I’m critical of modern approaches to ecology, I’m really trying to remind my reader of the long relationship that Western civilization has had to these forests that define the fringe of its place of habitation, and that this relationship is one that has a rich history of symbolism and imagination and myth and literature. So much of the Western imagination has projected itself into this space that when you lose a forest, you’re losing more than just the natural phenomenon or biodiversity; you’re also losing the great strongholds of cultural memory.(Source: discussing "Deforestation in a Civilized World.")”