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“The heartfelt realization of one's insignificance yields a calming sense of being completely connected to the greater whole. As a tiny part of the world and humanity, I now feel more at peace and much larger than I ever felt as a man alone.”
― Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
― Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
“That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once.
They are the meaning.”
― Before I Fall
They are the meaning.”
― Before I Fall
“To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit. It is in the wilderness that you really learn who you are.”
― Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
― Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
“That was the thing about Levantin: he loved the birds, but he really loved the places they brought him. When you spend your career in the confines of a gray suit, the pipits at dawn above timberline are even more wondrous.”
― The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
― The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
“Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.”
― The Amber Spyglass
― The Amber Spyglass
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