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How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

by Deb Chachra

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Ariel’s Notes & Highlights

A Little More About Me by Pam Houston

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I’ve never felt like I’m on vacation if there’s not at least a little suffering involved.

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

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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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“It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.”
― Wallace Stegner

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