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“One note is not music. It is what lies between the notes that makes the music. And what is between them is: their relationship. Relationships are the music life makes. Context creates meaning. Asking, "What is the meaning of life?" is the wrong question; it makes you look in the wrong places. The question is, "Where is the meaning in life?" The place to look is: between.”
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
“One can fully own a manufactured thing—a toaster, say, or a pair of shoes. But in what reasonable sense can one fully "own" and have "rights" to do whatever we want to land, water, air, and forests, which are among the most valuable assets in humanity's basic endowments? To say, in the march of eons, that we own these things into which we suddenly, fleetingly appear and from which we will soon vanish is like a newborn laying claim to the maternity ward, or a candle asserting ownership of the cake; we might as well declare that, having been handed a ticket to ride, we've bought the train. Let's be serious.”
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
“The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's a place of tide and tantrum; of flirtations among fresh- and saltwaters, forests and shores; of tense negotiations with an ocean that gives much but demands more. Every year the raw rim that is this coast gets hammered and reshaped like molten bronze. This place roils with power and a sometimes terrible beauty. The coast remains youthful, daring, uncertain about tomorrow. The guessing, the risk; in a way, we're all thrill seekers here.”
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
“But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.”
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
― The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
“But you know I am not of the "afraid" kind. I am not boasting. That is a characteristic, not a quality. One is afraid or one is not. It happens that I am not.”
― A Hilltop on the Marne: Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914
― A Hilltop on the Marne: Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914
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