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“And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there
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“sometimes you have to be big enough to realize how very small you are.”
― A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature
― A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature
“Two people have to choose and be chosen, and, most unlikely of all, these choices must happen at roughly the same time.”
― A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
― A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
“philosophy of friluftsliv: free time, freedom, stillness, contemplation, a state of being that is close to the original state from which we came.”
― A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature
― A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature
“Perhaps our heads don’t, in fact, fill up with great thoughts when we are walking alone in the woods. What if it’s precisely the opposite? What if our heads are rather emptied of any big thoughts and this is what we experience as liberating?”
― A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature
― A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature
“The brain of a trout is about the size of a pea, and as such it isn’t likely that trout have particularly well-developed memory archives from previous years. On the contrary, it almost seems as if they’ve forgotten everything, or else that for the sake of capacity, they stuff any remembrance of useful experiences down into the darkest corners of their minds.”
― A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature
― A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature
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