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Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream QUOTES

Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream QUOTES

1 " By being grateful, appreciating all we have instead of focusing on what is lacking, we allow more of the same to flow toward us. "

― William Powers , Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream

2 " Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things." We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial processes can produce Kevlar, it takes a temperature of thousands of degrees to do it, and the fiber is pulled through sulfuric acid. In contrast, a spider makes its silk - which per gram is several times stronger than steel - at room temperature in water. "

― William Powers , Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream

3 " As hot as the blood is the missing of her. God, how I want her little hand in mine. Only another parent can fully get this. It’s completely different from separation from a parent or lover. The clay in me wants to touch that part of myself — my blood flowing through another heart — touch the memories of her birth. The first time I held her, she was the length of my forearm. "

― William Powers , Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream

4 " When discussing relatively “poorer” countries, we need to make a clear, explicit distinction between people living in a state of material destitution and people living healthy subsistence lifestyles. Terms like poverty and Third World mask this distinction and give license for modern professionals — of whom I’ve long been one — to undervalue, denigrate, and interfere with sustainable ways of life. "

― William Powers , Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream

5 " From 1998 to 2008 the world’s rainforests have disappeared at a rate of an acre every two minutes, approximately 1 percent a year. At this rate, in forty years we will have destroyed the last of them. "

― William Powers , Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream

6 " I thought of something from Nietzsche: “How little suffices for happiness! "

― William Powers , Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream

7 " Leah thought for a moment. The other day she’d said to me: “Not a lot of women will tell you this, but the desire to be pregnant is like the desire to eat when you’re starving. And it’s distinct from sexual desire; a physical craving to carry that weight. "

― William Powers , Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream