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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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“Wilderness is not a place of isolation but contemplation. Refuge. Refugees.....Wilderness is a knife that cuts through pretense and exposes fear. Even in remote country, you cannot escape your mind.”
― The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
― The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
“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
“...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.”
― The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
― The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“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
“Awe is the moment when ego surrenders to wonder. This is our inheritance - the beauty before us. We cry. We cry out. There is nothing sentimental about facing the desert bare. It is a terrifying beauty.”
― The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
― The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
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