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“People who live on continents get into the habit of regarding the ocean as journey's end, the full stop at the end of the trek. For people who live on islands, the sea is always the beginning. It's the ferry to the mainland, the escape route from the boredom and narrowness of home.”
― Coasting: A Private Voyage
― Coasting: A Private Voyage
“We need a new ethic of place, one that has room for salmon and skyscrapers, suburbs and wilderness, Mount Rainier and the Space Needle, one grounded in history.”
― Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle
― Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle
“More than any city I know, San Francisco is made up of discrete neighborhoods, each with its own unique aura. The main reason for this is its terrain. Its convoluted landscape defines San Francisco's neighborhoods, endowing each of them with a specific terroir.”
― Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
― Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
“Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.”
― Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
― Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“How is it that people look at the same city and see such very different places? The answer lies in history, or, more accurately, in how people have chosen to remember the past. The habit of regarding culture and nature as binary categories has shaped how we view cities and their dynamic environments. The result is a kind of intellectual myopia in which 'history is experienced as nostalgia and nature as regret--as a horizon fast disappearing behind us.”
― Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle
― Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle
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