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• To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the…
• Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.
• Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
• From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans…
• The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be…
• The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by…
• Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous,…
• Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the…
• Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.
• I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there.
• Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.
• Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed…

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