Wild Atlantic Women Quotes

“I am beginning to properly enjoy myself, to revel in the fact that when I am walking, nobody knows where I am or what I'm doing. This realisation continued today on the shoreline, as looking and learning about the seaweeds through Ellen Hutchins's curiosity, I began also to appreciate the beauty she saw all around her as she walked - to understand how happy she was here in her solitude.”
― Gráinne Lyons, Wild Atlantic Women: Walking Ireland’s West Coast

“I began to appreciate these women as actual people who lived actual lives, deeply entrenched in their environments, and to know that a few books read or a few days walking in these places could never really scratch the surface.”
― Gráinne Lyons, Wild Atlantic Women: Walking Ireland’s West Coast

“she fell in love with the island by studying the literature of the Great Blasket as part of her master's thesis”
― Gráinne Lyons, Wild Atlantic Women: Walking Ireland’s West Coast