Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
When we rely deeply on other lives, there is urgency to protect them.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Solitude, observation, and simple conviviality should be recognized not only as ends in and of themselves, but inalienable rights belonging to anyone lucky enough to be alive.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Imagine: if the mind of the politician and developer could awaken to the ancient integrity of landscape, it would become more and more difficult to damage the beauty of nature.
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
Big Basin State Park
Noah Levine • Dharma Punx
Florida drew the transient and rootless on the eternal promise of a second chance, with more than its share of scammers and con men. So who was to say the guy living next door wasn’t one of them? A subdivision like Carriage Pointe was Jane Jacobs’s vision of hell.
George Packer • The Unwinding
conchology,
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Nature
The difficulties I had encountered were superseded by stirring memories of the vastness, remoteness, silence, and incredible beauty of this pristine wilderness.
J.R. Harris • Way Out There: Adventures of a Wilderness Trekker
went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Colin Fletcher • The Complete Walker IV
“He not busy being born is busy dying.”