Way Out There: Adventures of a Wilderness Trekker
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 1)
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Read this powerful quote today and thought I’d share:
“Always in big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. You are u... See more
“Always in big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. You are u... See more
I might return not only with a cleaner understanding of a landscape that had been a fixation since my boyhood, but with a better grasp of who I was, and perhaps a renewed sense of whom I might yet become, before it was too late to grow and change.
Kevin Fedarko • A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
It seemed that if I took this journey I would be utterly changed. And before setting out, I couldn’t predict what that change would be. That was interesting to me. It encouraged me to set off with only the vaguest directions.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
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