April

“Insofar as we have freedoms, it’s not because some great wise Founding Fathers granted them to us. It’s because people like us insisted on exercising those freedoms—by doing exactly what we’re doing here—before anyone was willing to acknowledge that they had them.”
― David Graeber, The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement

“Hiking the AT is “pointless.” What life is not “pointless”? Is it not pointless to work paycheck to paycheck just to conform? Hiking the AT before joining the workforce was an opportunity not taken. Doing it in retirement would be sensible; doing it at this time in my life is abnormal, and therein lay the appeal. I want to make my life less ordinary.”
― David Miller, AWOL on the Appalachian Trail

“There are limits to every domain, and laws to govern every organized power. But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the non-existent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.” - Isabelle Eberhardt (The Oblivion Seekers)”
― Erin Miller, Hikertrash: Life on the Pacific Crest Trail