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They continue on, into the mountains, sedately, like some kind of royal procession, the diplomatic arrival of a crowned couple. And it is historic, she thinks. It’s five hundred years since their extermination on the island. They are a distant memory, a mythical thing. Britain has altered radically, as has her iconography of wilderness, her totems.
... See moreSarah Hall • The Wolf Border
the words of Henry David Thoreau played on repeat in my head: ‘Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.’
Ross Edgley • The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body
Il gesto di Ettore: Preistoria, storia, attualità e scomparsa del padre (Italian Edition)
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It strikes her that she envies him. His years of enforced tranquility, the patience of his slowed mind, the expansion of his blinkered senses. He can watch the dozen bare trees in the backyard for hours and see something intricate and surprising, sufficient to his desires, while she—she is still trapped in a hunger that rushes past everything.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
But that face, that human, was gone. Mother Nature, as Tennyson said, is “red in tooth and claw,” demolishing every beautiful thing she has ever created.
Caitlin Doughty • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Adam named all the mammals and the birds—so forging a connection with them that went to the root of what both they and he were. His very first words were the names. We are shaped by the things we say and the labels we give. So Adam was shaped by his interactions with the animals. That interaction, and that shaping, are simple historical facts. We’v
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