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“I often tell students that we should aspire to be amanuenses to the land: to let the land speak (in all its voices, human and otherwise), then take dictation, and try to get some of the words right.

“How do you know when you get the words right?” they ask.

“You know,” I reply. When we do, the leaves not only speak; they positively sing.”
― Robert Michael Pyle, Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essays

“Do all people have one story that haunts them throughout their lives?”
― Nessa Rapoport, Evening

“The sky was as dark as it had ever been. Frozen, exhausted, and out of breath, they fumbled forward together once more. In the end, all they had done was cross from one kind of desolation to another.”
― Joe Meno, Between Everything and Nothing

“We have no choice but to scramble to retrace our steps and to try, in a hurry now, to imagine things differently: other worlds, other ways of thinking, living, seeing. Other ways of writing, and of reading.”
― Ben Ehrenreich, Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time