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“Personally, the grassland before me was decidedly unlike any other grassland in the world and, someday later, when I hear about it at a remove, a subtle but complex emotion will rise up in me. When it dies one day, I will be saddened. Maybe this is what's called a sense of locality, a love of place, in humanist geography.”

“Travel seems to have made up for this emotional lack. You go to live somewhere and let your body reconnect with the land until meaningful and dense layers of images are amassed in a neatly laid-out space on a map.”

“I don't know which are more proficient, the scientists or the shamans, but they are both retelling what Nature has told them.”

“… geologists have become the new shamans, listeners of Nature.”

Excellent writing

Pika eradication

Flipping back and forth between Chairman Mao and the Dalai Llama - pema grandfather and movies

Ache llamo operas

powering through the rest of this today at any cost

“It is a kind of despairing isolation, like rain
being drowned by an ocean.”

I miss when this book was about looking for a snow leopard…