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Believe the trigger warnings! I had heard vague tws but didn’t quite understand that it’s a pretty grapey, domestic violence-kink kind of story.

“Youth yet unborn still pole up the Missouri or climb the Sierras, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to day he went under while conservationists weren’t looking.”

“Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness… I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?”

“I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.”

“Thus always does history, whether of marsh or market place, and in paradox… all conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wildness left to cherish.”

“Mechanized man, oblivious of floras, is proud of his progress in cleaning up the landscape on which, willy-nilly, he must live out his days.”

“Hemisphere solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.”

“she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”

If she calls him “the personage” one more time i swear to god

I love when there’s a bandwagon I’m interested in 😻

When I started feeling the drag of winter, I began to treat myself like a favorite child: with kindness and love. I assumed my needs were reasonable, and that my feelings were signals of something important.

When we endlessly ruminate over distant times, we miss ordinary things in the present moment. These extraordinary things are, in actual fact, all we have: the hearing now. The distant perception of our senses.

That we should stop trying to finalize our comfort and security, and instead find a radical acceptance of the endless, unpredictable change that is the very essence of this life.

Why did I choose to start this now of all times

“How could she deserve life? Who ever deserves life?
But you could not question such gifts… There was no answer, only wondrous and inexplicable grace, and the only thing to do in return was simply to live.”

“What a miracle a person was, she thought. They took up so little space. The difference between presence and absence was not even a square meter of matter.”

“She knew very well where the sun shone, and yet was bound by an impulse to bury herself in the dark.”

Already so easy to get totally immersed in. This one’s gonna get me

“It’s not that I’m tired of him; it’s that I’m tired of h to e person I become around him.”