“I had been sick of carrying around the self-indulgent negativity which was so much the malaise of my generation, my sex and my class.”
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“To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything. It was my life-- like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me.
How wild it was, to let it be.”
― Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
How wild it was, to let it be.”
― Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.”
― Speedboat
― Speedboat
“We are drawn to certain locations where the land resonates with us and pulls us towards it. People can spend their entire lives looking for the places where they belong, places where they feel at home, where they fit and can comfortably set down roots.”
― The Garden Awakening: Designs to nurture our land and ourselves
― The Garden Awakening: Designs to nurture our land and ourselves
“They've built their nests in the chimneys of my heart: those swallows that you lost.”
― Another Roadside Attraction
― Another Roadside Attraction
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