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“Norwegian Wood”
― Gary Sizer, Where's the Next Shelter?

“Almost every culture has its own version of “forty days and forty nights,” where some young person is sent into the wilderness to survive, or to have a vision, or both. It’s a rite of passage, a way to select or strengthen the tribe’s warriors. The individual is stripped of everything. No clothes, no weapons, no food. The ones that come back are transformed in a way that the elders recognize and the uninitiated envy. The calm confidence in one’s own abilities coupled with a dash of enlightenment is a powerful combination. But what does a modern warrior do with that?”
― Gary Sizer, Home is Forward: Hiking and Travel Adventures from Around the World

“Chad Denning engineered a life that kept him surrounded by everything he loved most. And in doing so, he not only followed bliss, but became a source of it. A second later, he was on the ground.”
― Gary Sizer, Where's the Next Shelter?