Yambunz quoted Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit
“In the year 1936 a writer planted roses.” So begins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a …
There is of course, a meaningful difference between the dour (and widespread) position that we are forever starting from scratch because everything is contaminated or corrupt and the position that the good exisits as a kind of seed that needs to be tended more energetically or propagated more widely.
— Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit (Page 193)