Nora Bromley

“We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope. —Wallace Stegner, Wilderness Letter to the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission”
― Mark Kenyon, That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands

“Only a friend who knows me in the way Oscar did would have thought of this. I think the best gift a person can receive is one they can use to achieve happiness for themselves year after year. In another life, these were the tools of my life’s work. I used these to build homes for my family and friends, homes that changed their lives, saw them through the darkness and the light, gave them refuge in the winters and summers of their lives.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Lost Colony

“I think maybe what exists beyond this world is just energy, you know? Nothing more. Nothing less. Because physics tells us that energy is infinite. It cannot be created or destroyed. So I guess I think we all go back to where we came from. The force that animates us, I guess you could say. We go back to the well of where that life comes from, and we're no longer separate from each other the way we are here on this plane. No longer animals. Reduced to that essence of life, reduced to energy. And all the drama we experience here is over, the conflict, all the territorial battling we do is rendered meaningless. We are no longer burdened with these concerns of power or control. We simply exist. Maybe that's heaven.”
― L.T. Vargus, Beyond Good & Evil

“They will face it with their eyes wide open. That is the true human challenge: to have faith that the end is only a beginning we can’t understand.” Oscar”
― A.G. Riddle, The Lost Colony