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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.”
― The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
― 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.”
― 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
“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.”
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
― Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“It is also not the “end of nature” but, instead, the end of the illusion that we are outside nature. Dazzled by our own creations, we have forgotten that we are wholly embedded in a much older, more powerful world whose constancy we take for granted. As a species, we are much less flexible than we would like to believe, vulnerable to economic loss and prone to social unrest when nature—in the guise of Katrina, Sandy, or Harvey, among others—diverges just a little from what we expect.”
― Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
― Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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