Helen Dunn
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on that island, the two of them married and raised a family as well as they could, away from the growing sadness of the real world.
“Even when nothing seemed to be going our way, he held fast to the belief that something absolutely marvelous lay hidden within the folds of each disaster, and that if we kept our wits and maintained our senses of humor, we would sooner or later be permitted to partake in the magic.”
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
“The world is dangerous and we will not survive it. But there is this. Impermanent as it may be.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“An infinite horizon is like a strong current in the sea; it drags you to unknown places before you even notice it!”
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“When you know there’s a good chance you’re going into the red room, you have to reach down and find a different place mentally,” he’d tell his squad.I “The thing that distinguishes successful athletes from everybody else is a realization that your limits are not necessarily where you think they are—and that your body is capable of doing more, often far more, than you expect it can.” Although Pete never really tried to make the downhill team, he absorbed many of these ideas, in particular the conviction that any challenge could successfully be met with the right combination of drive, grit, and sunny optimism—and if this proved insufficient, well, it was okay to just wing it.”
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
“This was a sky belonging to a time that no longer exists—a sky that has never been seen, or even imagined, by most people living in such places as Boston or Dallas or Los Angeles. A sky whose wildness can call forth and amplify”
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
― A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
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