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“That was the thing about Levantin: he loved the birds, but he really loved the places they brought him. When you spend your career in the confines of a gray suit, the pipits at dawn above timberline are even more wondrous.”
― The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
― The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
“The heartfelt realization of one's insignificance yields a calming sense of being completely connected to the greater whole. As a tiny part of the world and humanity, I now feel more at peace and much larger than I ever felt as a man alone.”
― Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
― Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
“Every moment before this one depends on this one.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.”
― The Amber Spyglass
― The Amber Spyglass
“The sun is beautiful, long and low on the horizon like it’s stretching itself, like it’s shaking off a nap, and I know underneath this weak winter light is the promise of days that last until eight P.M. and pool parties and the smell of chlorine and burgers on the grill; and underneath that is the promise of trees lit up in red and orange like flames and spiced cider, and frost that melts away by noon – layers upon layers of life, always something more, new, deeper.”
― Before I Fall
― Before I Fall
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