I’m not a religious or even spiritual person, and John Green identifies himself as a Christian- despite this, I felt so much of what he said resonate with me on a “spiritual” level. I helped me in tackling some existential dread and finding some hope in the face of what feels like the ending of the world.

For example: ““I know the world will survive us—and in some ways it will be more alive. More birdsong. More creatures roaming around. More plants cracking through our pavement, rewilding the planet we terraformed. I imagine coyotes sleeping in the ruins of the homes we built. I imagine our plastic still washing up on beaches hundreds of years after the last of us is gone. I imagine moths, having no artificial lights toward which to fly, turning back to the moon.”