Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.
“All of life is a trust fall, and I'm awakening to the thrill, rather than the fear, of being suspended midair.”
― Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World
― 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.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing.”
― Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World
― 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.’ ”
― The Power of Myth
― The Power of Myth
“What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected?”
― Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World
― Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World
Sunny Townes’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sunny Townes’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Polls voted on by Sunny Townes
Lists liked by Sunny Townes




























