Senseofplace Quotes

“The smell of green grass was rich and comforting. He felt better already. This is splendid. We can all go for a garbage buffet tonight.”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

“I didn’t lose him. He’s not a set of keys, or an acorn”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

“After listening to the great farmer-poet Wendell Berry deliver a lecture on how we each have a duty to love our 'homeplace' more than any other, I asked him if he had any advice for rootless people like me and my friends, who disappear into our screens and always seem to be shopping for the perfect community where we should put down our roots. 'Stop somewhere,' he replied. 'And begin the thousand-year-long process of knowing that place. That's good advice on lots of levels, because in order to win this fight of our lives, we all need a place to stand.”
― Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

“Outside, Santa Fe breathed the way it does in early fall—cool, steady, unhurried.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: Stolen

“Santa Fe’s night usually held a scatter of voices, a stray laugh, a dog bark; tonight the silence carried weight, like the city itself was holding its breath.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: Stolen