“Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition.”
― Angle of Repose
― Angle of Repose
“My home is full of hope and ghosts.”
― Jonny Appleseed
― Jonny Appleseed
“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.”
― Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
― Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
“Most of us, she said, absolve ourselves of responsibility for change by sentimentalizing our pasts.”
― Women Talking
― Women Talking
“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.”
― The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
― The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
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