“I care with the brightened curiosity of one who loves a subject for no rational reason, but who loves it nonetheless and prodigally. This is the ardor of the academic Austenologist who believes that if she looks beneath the floorboards… — Lyanda Lynn Haupt Copy Share
“We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume, and to… — Lyanda Lynn Haupt Copy Share Image
“In spite of the string of magazine covers announcing the contrary, we all know that ten simple things will not save the earth. There are, rather, three thousand impossible things that all of us must do, and changing our light bulbs, while necessary, is the barest beginning. We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine… — Lyanda Lynn Haupt Copy Share
“I care with the brightened curiosity of one who loves a subject for no rational reason, but who loves it nonetheless and prodigally. This is the ardor of the academic Austenologist who believes that if she looks beneath the floorboards of the right dusty attic, she will find the diary entry explaining why Jane Austen rejected her one marriage proposal… — Lyanda Lynn Haupt Copy Share
“Hope is 'that virtue by which we take responsibility for the future.' Not just responsibility for our individual futures but also for that of… — Lyanda Lynn Haupt Copy Share Image
“…hope is 'that virtue by which we take responsibility for the future.' ...hope is our positive orientation toward the future, a future in which… — Lyanda Lynn Haupt Copy Share Image