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I listened to the audio version of this book and loved it so much I bought the book. I am now listening to it again and highlighting the MANY lines throughout that deeply resonated with me. This is truly a book full of inspiration for any creative pe
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7-26-26: Still working my way through this, and dang it's hard to listen to the mess that this one man has created to appease his ego. Not only is he/has he ruined my country, he's ruining the entire world! Horrifying.
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“I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures ...”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“This is what we can promise the future: a legacy of care. That we will be good stewards and not take too much or give back too little, that we will recognize wild nature for what it is, in all its magnificent and complex history - an unfathomable wealth that should be consciously saved, not ruthlessly spent. Privilege is what we inherit by our status as Homo sapiens living on this planet. This is the privilege of imagination. What we choose to do with our privilege as a species is up to each of us.
Humility is born in wildness. We are not protecting grizzlies from extinction; they are protecting us from the extinction of experience as we engage with a world beyond ourselves. The very presence of a grizzly returns us to an ecology of awe. We tremble at what appears to be a dream yet stands before us on two legs and roars.”
― The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
Humility is born in wildness. We are not protecting grizzlies from extinction; they are protecting us from the extinction of experience as we engage with a world beyond ourselves. The very presence of a grizzly returns us to an ecology of awe. We tremble at what appears to be a dream yet stands before us on two legs and roars.”
― The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
“Wilderness is the source of what we can imagine and what we cannot- the taproot of consciousness.
It will survive us.”
― The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
It will survive us.”
― The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
“I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.”
― Tropic of Capricorn
― Tropic of Capricorn
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― The Sound of Mountain Water
― The Sound of Mountain Water
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