rise up

 

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”

 

~ Socrates ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in May 2017.

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the milk of human kindness

 

“The universe is a pretty big place.

If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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as civilization begins to crumble

 

“We can endure neither our vices

nor the remedies needed to cure them.”

 

~ Livy ~

 

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TRICKLE DOWN

 

“A nation will not survive morally or economically

when so few have so much and so many have so little.”

 

~ Bernie Sanders ~

 

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AGELESS AM I

 

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

 

~ George Carlin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Kinderdijk, Netherlands in April 2007.

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PILES OF BONES

 

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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NO GOD

 

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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COMIC OPERA

 

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity

is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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RISE UP

 

“Life shrinks or expands

in proportion with one’s courage.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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AS CIVILIZATION BEGINS TO CRUMBLE

 

“We can endure neither our vices

nor the remedies needed to cure them.”

 

~ Livy ~

 

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THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS

 

“Billions of years from now our sun,

then a distended red giant star,

will have reduced Earth to a charred cinder.

But the Voyager record will still be largely intact,

in some other remote region of the Milky Way galaxy,

preserving a murmur of an ancient civilization that once flourished.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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THE GREAT EXTINCTION

 

“Our planet is currently undergoing

a mass extinction of species

called the Anthropocene – the Age of Man.”

 

~ Louie Psihoyos ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2018.

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RUINS

 

“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities;

but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!”

 

~ Comte de Lautréamont ~

 

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