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Steve Boyes
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My influences come as much from wild places as from books: years alone
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A Silence Inside All Silences
After everything we’ve done, all the killing, the shadows have forgotten that we exist. Defying any description, they appear and disappear, appear and disappear, the wildness moves. This nameless island rises, only slightly, above water, old elephant-bent trees lean in to talk to one another, palms hold their crowns like fireworks exploding against an impossible blue, sunlight tumbles through ever
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“He taught me that leaders’ strength doesn’t overpower, and wisdom doesn’t boast. I am a better person for having known him. Leilamang’s life is a testament to the awesome power of understatement in a world that confuses noise with importance.”
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
“There are people on Earth who still live without time. They wake up with the sun and the morning chorus. They live with the rain and stars, connected to the ebb and flow of living. They are present and alive.”
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
“I had found the place I had been looking for all my life. The decision was made: I was coming back to live in northern Botswana. This is where I would get completely and entirely lost—and where I would come to find myself.”
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
“Every quest into the wild is a warning. Wild landscapes are sacred places, where people live connected to millennia of death, reverence, and struggle. Explorers know that our last wild places and the people living in them hold the humility, resilience, and interconnectedness of all living things.”
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
“By entering to document them, do we destroy these last wildernesses, or can we remember how to be part of them?”
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
“It felt like all life was holding its breath. He landed in front of me and looked into my eyes, beyond my soul. I had never felt so connected to the present moment.”
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
“No matter what happens, I will continue poling across the delta until I die. The floodwater is a source of life for me too.”
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
“I had found the place I had been looking for all my life. The decision was made: I was coming back to live in northern Botswana. This is where I would get completely and entirely lost—and where I would come to find myself.”
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters
― Okavango and the Source of Life: Exploring Africa's Lost Headwaters