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“I had discovered that I am the kind of person who cannot live comfortably, tolerably, on all-flat terrain. For the sake of inner equilibrium there has to be at least one mountain range on at least one of the four quarters of my horizon-and not more than a day’s walk away.”
― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

“we should all carry two slips of paper in our pockets: one that says “I am ashes and dust,” and one that reads “The world was made for me.”
― Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

“Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present moment even before the way is found or followed.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

“Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose