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“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
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“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
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“Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
“Lying there, I thought of my own culture, of the assembly of books in the library at Alexandria; of the deliberations of Darwin and Mendel in their respective gardens; of the architectural conception of the cathedral at Chartres; of Bach's cello suites, the philosophy of Schweitzer, the insights of Planck and Dirac. Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?”
― Arctic Dreams
― Arctic Dreams
“Even a man as wilderness-averse as Aldous Huxley came to understand that “a man misses something by not establishing a participative and living relationship with the non-human world of animals and plants, landscapes and stars and seasons. By failing to be, vicariously, the not-self, he fails to be completely himself.” This is the most succinct definition of the wilderness I have found: the not-self. There, in the one place we have not remolded in our image, a very deep and ancient form of wisdom can be found. “At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman,” wrote Albert Camus.”
― On Trails: An Exploration
― On Trails: An Exploration
Toni’s 2025 Year in Books
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