Lyon Terry

“Nostalgia has to do with reason. And reason is humankind’s foremost advantage in the struggle for existence.”
― Torbjørn Ekelund, A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature

“when I went out to get the newspaper from the mailbox in the morning. This trivial task is, in my opinion, completely underrated as a natural experience. You have just risen, and in this untarnished state you walk outside. The air wakes you up. Or nature does.”
― Torbjørn Ekelund, A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature

“But you had to be who you were to get to who you are. Every page in the story is successive; they’re all numbered and bound like a book.”
― R. Eric Thomas, Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

“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?”
― Torbjørn Ekelund, A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature