Sunny D’s Reviews > Arctic Dreams > Status Update

"We bring our own worlds to bear in foreign landscapes in order to clarify them for ourselves ... The risk we take is of finding our final authority in the metaphors rather than in the land. To inquire into the intricacies of a distant landscape, then, is to provoke thoughts about one's own interior landscape, and the familiar landscape of memory. The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves."

"You cannot look at Western painting, let alone the work of the luminists, without sensing that hunger. Western civilization, I think, longs for light as it longs for blessing, or for peace or God." !!!

"With my binoculars I could follow the scarves of turquoise melt water unfurling 400 feet to the sea."

I picked up a physical copy so I can swap from my kindle and start UNDERLINING THINGS with a pen woooo

I've learned so many facts about polar bears, you guys, I'm about to be so insufferable...

Unrelentingly informational, but rivetingly so.