Carl

“They hang the man and flog the woman Who steals the goose from off the common, Yet let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose.”
― Alastair Humphreys, Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness

“We’re like the comic strip character Hagar the Horrible who, when asked which he’d choose, power, gold, or true happiness, chose power: “With power, I could get the gold, and then I’d be happy.” We find Hagar’s idea humorous because we know better. Yet most of the time we ignore this very knowledge, and act (or at least think) much like Hagar.”
― Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple

“The prolific hillwalker Rob Woodall became the first person to visit every trig point, on a mission that took him from Lizard Point in Cornwall to Unst in the Shetlands. He climbed Ben Nevis, Britain’s highest peak, and bagged the trig point by the Little Ouse in Norfolk, which lies 1,346 metres lower – one metre below sea level, in fact. It took two years of campaigning before he was granted permission to visit the privately owned trig point in Fort Borstal, Kent. At the end of his journey he said, ‘I’m not sure what I will do next but I’m not sure I could ever take up stamp collecting.”
― Alastair Humphreys, Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness

“Those who are aware,” he said, “do not die. Those who are ignorant are as if dead already.”
― Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple