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> [Sports remain a great metaphor for life's more difficult lessons. It was through athletics that many of us first came to understand that fear can be tamed; that on a team the whole is more than the sum of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-casey/sports-remain-a-great-metaphor-for-life-s-more-difficult-lessons-it/)

[Susan Casey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-casey/)

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## More by Susan Casey

> [“While chasing birds, he had hitchhiked through some of the most desolate places imaginable. Nicaraguan jungles, Indian slums, Samoa fruit bat colonies. But when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-casey/while-chasing-birds-he-had-hitchhiked-through-some-of-the-most/)

[Susan Casey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-casey/)

> [ “\[The waves\] move across a faint horizon, the rush of love and the surge of grief, the respite of peace and then fear again,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-casey/the-waves-move-across-a-faint-horizon-the-rush-of-love-and-the-surge/)

[Susan Casey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-casey/)

> [Sports remain a great metaphor for life's more difficult lessons. It was through athletics that many of us first came to understand that fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-casey/sports-remain-a-great-metaphor-for-life-s-more-difficult-lessons-it/)

[Susan Casey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-casey/)

> [“The devices meant to float at sea and capture the waves' power have been destroyed in short order by . . . the waves.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-casey/the-devices-meant-to-float-at-sea-and-capture-the-waves-power-have/)

[Susan Casey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-casey/)

> [“No one knew exactly why the seals ate stones, but maybe, some thought, it was for ballast. Or to help digestion. Or to stave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-casey/no-one-knew-exactly-why-the-seals-ate-stones-but-maybe-some-thought/)

[Susan Casey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-casey/)

> [In every sport there comes a moment when a spell of bitter weeping seems like a fair recess from whatever tough work is going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-casey/in-every-sport-there-comes-a-moment-when-a-spell-of-bitter-weeping/)

[Susan Casey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-casey/)

> [People think with climate change what's going to happen is things are just going to get hotter. But that isn't really the whole story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-casey/people-think-with-climate-change-what-s-going-to-happen-is-things-are/)

[Susan Casey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-casey/)

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