That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet.

  • -- Kim Stanley Robinson 金·斯坦利·罗宾森

这是我们这个时代的一个讽刺之处:正当我们处于医疗保健水平大幅提高的边缘之际,我们也在烹饪这个星球。

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Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

事情是否会好转取决于我们做了什么。我们不应该把时间花在规划未来上,而应该认识到我们的前进目标:为历史和地球尽我们所能。

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

缺席者需要时间才能在我们的思想中呈现出他们真实的形象。死后,他们有一个更坚定的轮廓,然后停止改变。

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

两百多年前,这个星球上的大多数人都只知道他们成长的环境。

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

完美是有点枯燥。人生的讽刺之处在于,我们所有人的目标都是实现不了的。

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

与其在借来的时间里等待伟大的揭露,不如敞开心扉地生活。