Sunny Townes

“All of life is a trust fall, and I'm awakening to the thrill, rather than the fear, of being suspended midair.”
― Leigh Ann Henion, Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World

“The mind too can be imagined as a landscape, but only the minds of sages might resemble the short-grass prairie in which I played with getting lost and vanishing. The rest of us have caverns, glaciers, torrential rivers, heavy fogs, chasms that open up underfoot, even marauding wildlife bearing family names. It’s a landscape in which getting lost is easy and some regions are terrifying to visit.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing.”
― Leigh Ann Henion, Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World

“the only true wisdom lives far from mankind, out in the great loneliness, and can be reached only through suffering. Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others.’ ”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth