"Investor Charlie Munger once noted that the world isn't driven by greed; it's driven by envy."
Morgan Housel, American author
Source: Morgan Housel. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes. New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2023; p. 26.
via: Sketchbook M 13, 2024, p. 4.
"But isn't play the way we get limbered up for the work of the world?"
–– Robin Wall Kimmerer (b. 1953), American writer, ecologist, botanist, professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation
Source: Robin Wall Kimmerer. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Milkweed Editions, 2013; p. 94.
Listening to Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and then reading a physical copy once the first lockdown was over got me through the pandemic. I would read a chapter before bed to calm my stressed mind.
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
–– Anaïs Nin (1903-1977), French-Cuban American writer
Source: Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin.
via 2020 Aboveground Art Supplies Knapsack Sketchbook, 2022, p. 11.
"This world is but a canvas to our imaginations."
–– Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American essayist, philosopher, and poet
via Sketchbook 15, 2011, p. 71
