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“From that day on, I began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being, with a direct genetic link across species both living and extinct, extending back nearly four billion years to the earliest single-celled organisms on Earth.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

“Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

“Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it’s worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less are we able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“Two of life’s greatest pleasures, by my reckoning, are camping and reading—most gloriously, both at once.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit