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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| de476ad | I am of this place. Family is a place, and my family s located here, those who are living and those who have passed. I am am settled in the scent of sage, Mount Moran's reflection at Oxbow Bend is more than a mirror of memories; it is the joy found in river otters, a reminder that there are places in the world we can return for peace unchanged. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 032a974 | I was not born here by my consciousness towards a land ethic was | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| a2d40d5 | This is what we can promise the future: a legacy of care. That we will be good stewards and not take too much or give back too little, that we will recognize wild nature for what it is, in all its magnificent and complex history - an unfathomable wealth that should be consciously saved, not ruthlessly spent. Privilege is what we inherit by our status as Homo sapiens living on this planet. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 74d9d06 | These bears were reimagined in place through a collective belief and need. I do not know why they were sculpted into being, but their power is palpable. I may be blind to what has been buried here or held inside these effigy mounds for thousands of years, but I can read the landscape like Braille through the tips of my fingers translating the script of grasses into a narrative I can understand. The bears and birds and snakes written on the .. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| d4c5dba | Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 9ab2458 | She loved the classics and believed in reading out loud. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| ddfa018 | All we have is time. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 72b54f3 | To be numb to the world is another form of suicide. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 6e9fe52 | Enormous cumulus clouds float above the plateau in the shape of turtles. Always turtles. The are moving so slowly, almost imperceptibly, makes me dizzy. The ground is stable, but the sky is in motion. When do we have the time in our lives to notice things so fully? I remember when Steve first learned of his diagnosis, we stood in the corner of his library and he said, "Something had to give. I was working too hard, moving too fast." I was r.. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| a8c61f5 | Artifacts are alive. Each has a voice. They remind us what it means to be human - that it is our nature to survive, to create works of beauty, to be resourceful, to be attentive to the world we live in. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 3f6e9f8 | Conversation is the vehicle for change. We test our ideas. We hear our own voice in a concert with another. And inside those pauses of listening, we approach new territories of thought. A good argument, call it a discussion, frees us. Words fly out of our mouths like threatened birds. Once released, they may never return. If they do, they have chosen home and the bird-worms are calmed into an ars poetica. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| d9ff5cd | This is what I have learned in these short weeks in the refuge: You cannot afford to make careless mistakes, like meditating in the presence of wolves, or topping your boots in the river, or losing a glove, or not securing your tent down properly. Death is a daily occurrence in the wild, not noticed, not respected, not mourned. In the Arctic, I've learned that ego is as useless as money. Choose one's travel companions well. Physical streng.. | wilderness | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 2fda897 | My mother's journals are a shadow play with mine. I am a woman wedded to words. Words cast a shadow. Without a shadow there is no depth. Without a shadow there is no substance. If we have no shadow, it means we are invisible. As long as I have a shadow, I am alive. | language voice words | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 13f636d | The nature of living and loving is the act of reciprocity. As women, we are told that to be the guest is to receive. We are told that to be the host is to give. But what if it is the reverse? What if it is the guest who gives to the host and it is the host who receives from the guest each time she sets her table to welcome and feed those she loves? To be the guest and the host simultaneously is to imagine a mutual exchange of gifts predicat.. | giving-and-receiving women | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 69d4269 | Our rivers are shrinking. Our lands are blowing away. And our lawmakers from our president to our legislators, both federal and state, are in denial of the one hard fact: We must change our lives, our politics, our beliefs, our actions, if we are going to survive. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 215d82a | The courage to continue before the face of despair is the recognition that in those eyes of darkness we find our own night vision. Women blessed with death-eyes are fearless. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 0827fbf | True eloquence has an edge, sharp and clean. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| e6e376a | Species other than man have rights, too. Having finished all the requisites of our proud, materialistic civilization, our neon-lit society, does nature, which is the basis of our existence, have the right to live on? Do we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness this right? | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| e1a40e6 | We come into this world through women: a woman who is spent, broken open, in awe. No wonder women have been worshiped ever since men first saw the crowning of a head, here, legs spread, a brushstroke of light. We are fire. We are water. We are earth. We are air. We are all things elemental. The world begins with "Yes," Changing women: we begin again like the moon. We can no longer deny the destiny that is ours by becoming women who wait: wa.. | war women | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| b310894 | We can choose to move like water rather than be molded like clay. Life spirals in and then spirals out on any given day. It does not have to be one way, one truth, one voice. Nor does love have to be all or nothing. Neither does power. What is positive and what is negative is not absolute. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| d576986 | When the girl at the squat got her throat slit, and Jacob got marked, Nix had been in Portland a little under a year. He had just bought a SpongeBob sleeping bag from Goodwill and had started to feel something like safe. But then, a roll or two of dust every other week helped with that. | Tara Bray Smith | ||
| c65b4da | Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside? | Kevin Smith | ||
| 2dfea7f | Like its author, this book is dedicated to Jen Schwalbach - the gorgeous mother of my child, the seductive temptress who keeps me faithful, and the friend I've always had the most fun with. My best friend, even. Also quite like the author, this book is additionally dedicated to Jen Schwalbach asshole. Everything above also applies here, obviously, except the "mother of my child" part: referencing my kid and my wife's brown eye in the same s.. | jen-schwalbach kevin-smith | Kevin Smith | |
| f283a60 | What we do know is that Aaron Hernandez was an escape artist. On the football field, no one could catch him. In Florida, he was a few steps removed from a terrible shooting that no one had answered for. In Boston, he almost certainly committed a double murder that he got away with. And when Aaron was caught, and convicted, for Odin Lloyd's murder, he continued to find new ways to escape. By killing himself, he escaped a long life behind bar.. | James Patterson | ||
| 976ffad | For now, there's nothing to do but strap on an attitude and act like I'm having a ball. | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| a43c720 | once told me this thing about brain chemistry, the nub of it being that when you're feeling good, you can't ever imagine feeling bad again. And when you're feeling bad, it's impossible to imagine a time when you won't be circling the drain. | James Patterson | ||
| 0dfaaae | Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.' And | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 476da3c | daresay you haven't had much practice,' said | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 1ffd6b1 | Aren't you sometimes frightened at being planted out here, with nobody to take care of you?' 'There's the tree in the middle,' said the Rose:'what else is it good for?' 'But what could it do, if any danger came?' Alice asked. 'It could bark,' said the Rose. | humor plants | Lewis Carroll | |
| 8a089f8 | absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 8c80069 | Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 5e919bd | Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, 'I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!' 'I haven't the least idea what you're talking | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 1ea6fb6 | You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| badc75d | It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she | Lewis Carroll | ||
| aaf41a6 | had a sneaking suspicion that | James Patterson | ||
| 688ca4a | It was all very well to say "Drink me," but the wise little Alice was not going to do in a hurry. "No, I'll look first," she said, "and see whether it's marked ' ' or not"; for she had read several nice little stories about children who got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold .. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| d5b6e61 | I believe this thought, of the possibility of death -- if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in goin.. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 23bdc45 | and the moral of that is --"Be what you would seem to be"-- or if you'd like it put more simply --"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 8159cc5 | Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that. --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass | Phil Knight | ||
| 7df10e1 | number of changes she had gone through that day. 'A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt. 'I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!' 'I have tasted eggs, certainly, | Lewis Carroll | ||
| c600196 | This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I-- I hardly know, sir, just at present -- at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| ddf1b05 | How fond she is of finding morals in things!' Alice thought to herself. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 3256974 | we can but stand aside, and let them Rush upon their Fate! There is scarcely anything of yours, upon which it is so dangerous to Rush, as your Fate. You may Rush upon your Potato-beds, or your Strawberry-beds, without doing much harm: you may even Rush upon your Balcony (unless it is a new house, built by contract, and with no clerk of the works) and may survive the foolhardy enterprise: but if you once Rush upon your FATE--why, you must ta.. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 641815a | Pero no quiero andar entre locos", protesto Alicia. "Oh, no puedes evitarlo", dijo el Gato: "todos estamos locos por aqui. Yo estoy loco. Tu estas loca"." | Lewis Carroll |