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We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves
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Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is…
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As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer…
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Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint…
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All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small…
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Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
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Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass,…
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Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and…
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This is what I love about the Kimberley... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your…
— Malcolm Douglas
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I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we…
— Djuna Barnes
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In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight.…
— Gary Snyder
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The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently!…
— Jim Gaffigan
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Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the…
— Louis Leakey
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Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint…
— Robert Macfarlane
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We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
— George Bernard Shaw
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