It is the oldest riddle never solved / The cypher written in the endless primes / And secrets of the stars that do revolve / That mocks my wit, and steals away my time. / The curse of those elusive complex roots, / And this shape’s area, that angle’s size, / And “trivial” things I cannot deduce, / Does hours and hours futilely vaporize.
“Facing Extinction.” This slogan was printed on the shirt I was handed upon arriving at a local pre-UN Climate Change Summit strike. I, like many other Americans, attended a local rally to demonstrate my support of my city’s green participation as well as my individual contribution to environmental activism.
“In nature, nothing exists alone,” said Rachel Carson. But are humans really keeping this in mind? People love the happiness of living in the present, enjoying what they already have without thinking about the future. But in this era, the philosophy of “we only live once” is …