Janna’s Reviews > Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail > Status Update

“This was once a mountain that stood nearly 12,000 ft tall and then had its heart removed. It was once a wasteland of lava… and ash…But hard as I tried, I couldn’t see them in my mind’s eye. Not the mountain or the wasteland…there was only the stillness and silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland…turned into after the healing began”

“It had only to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles for no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental.”

“I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild…even in my darkest days - those very days in which I was naming myself - I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my starting had brought me, I knew things I couldn’t have known before”

“I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a past bloom flower in the wind. Every time I moved a muscle, another petal of me blew away”

“The breaking of so great a thing
Should make a greater crack”

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