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I’m far from finishing the book, but I wanted to write my thoughts anyway. The book follows The Artist’s Way formula in order to help the reader/follower awaken their creative side and live a more creative journey through life. The core practices of
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“I have spent most of my life outside, but for the last three years, I have been walking five miles a day, minimum, wherever I am, urban or rural, and can attest to the magnitude of the natural beauty that is left. Beauty worth seeing, worth singing, worth saving, whatever that word can mean now. There is beauty in a desert, even one that is expanding. There is beauty in the ocean, even one that is on the rise.”
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
“We call such a limited number of relationships love in our lives, but there is always love around us—it’s as ubiquitous as oxygen. It lives in the houses where we’ve slept, the kitchens where we’ve cooked, in the food we’ve prepared for the people we love and in the walls we have shaped with our hands.”
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
“There is something so pleasingly pure about having a task to be accomplished and then accomplishing it. It is the exact opposite of writing, and pretty close to the opposite of teaching. In both writing and teaching, nothing is ever finished, only finished enough to let go.”
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
“We are all dying, and because of us, so is the earth. That’s the most terrible, the most painful in my entire repertoire of self-torturing thoughts.”
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
“For now, I want to sit vigil with the earth the same way I did with Fenton. I want to write unironic odes to her beauty, which is still potent, if not completely intact. The language of the wilderness is the most beautiful language we have and it is our job to sing it, until and even after it is gone, no matter how much it was face-to-face with my familiar koan: how to be with the incandescent beauty of the iceberg without grieving the loss of polar bear habitat its appearance implied. How to grieve the polar bear without loving it any less. How to let the sight of such a strange and beautiful thing as this floating jewel make me happy, as wild and surprising things have always done, from the top of my head to the tips of my toes. How to hang on to that full-body joy I knew I was capable of and still understand it as elegy?”
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
― Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
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