

“When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.”
― When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
― When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“Sometimes a great storm comes upon you so suddenly, so quickly, so cruelly that there is no time to run or think, all you have to do is turn towards it and stand firm in the face of this suddenly uninvited fate!”
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“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― The Sound of Mountain Water
― The Sound of Mountain Water

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity”
― Our National Parks
― Our National Parks
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