"We are such small, stupid things. For most……" — Lauren Oliver

We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I… - Lauren Oliver

"We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the rest of the world into submission, battered it down, pinned it to a glass slide and the pages of The Bool of Shhh."

— Lauren Oliver

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