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Ariel is Currently Reading

Ariel is currently reading

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

by Deb Chachra

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Ariel’s Notes & Highlights

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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors

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We’re all carrion eventually, whether for birds or for worms. I’d rather my remnants soar over mountains than slither beneath sod.

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Ariel’s Quotes

“Please remember: things are not what they seem.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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“Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: hope, love

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“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water

tags: environment, nature, wilderness

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“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: meanings, words

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