Nathan Lofland > Quotes

“Rope taught me to grieve slowly. Deliberately. To enter dark spaces not to conquer them, but to move through them with care, purpose, and trust in what I’d built.”
― Nathan Lofland, Underground Echoes: Field Edition: A Short Memoir of Grief, Wilderness, and Return

“It didn’t feel like failure. It felt like practice.”
― Nathan Lofland, Underground Echoes: Field Edition: A Short Memoir of Grief, Wilderness, and Return

“Down wasn’t where I was lost; it was where truth waited.”
― Nathan Lofland, Underground Echoes: Field Edition: A Short Memoir of Grief, Wilderness, and Return

“The cave doesn’t change for you, but it allows you to change for it.”
― Nathan Lofland, Underground Echoes: Field Edition: A Short Memoir of Grief, Wilderness, and Return

“Light moves differently underground.”
― Nathan Lofland, Underground Echoes: Field Edition: A Short Memoir of Grief, Wilderness, and Return