We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single
“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
“Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.”