Michael Ruger

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
― Gary Snyder

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“There is more to life than just continuing to do what we know. What got you here won’t get you there.”
― Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague