Amphibious Soul Quotes

“Perhaps the next stage of evolution of the amphibious soul means moving fluidly between the world we were born into and the world we are creating. Creatively, lovingly, communally, and—perhaps most importantly—playfully.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“In his book Cosmogenesis, Brian shared the epiphany that our minds are the creation of all the minds that came before us.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“But many of the Indigenous people I’ve met would never question this. They understand that this is the pattern of life: that nature is alive and intelligent and reciprocal, and that the animals we seek to know sometimes seem to be looking back at us.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“Wildness is something we all have touched; we only need to remember. What wild stories did you tell your elders before you learned the proper way to speak and write? At what moment did you trade in your own wild inheritance for the promise of safety and comfort? And was the choice even yours to make?”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“Though our souls crave communion with wildness, we are a species that has overwhelmingly embraced tameness and “comforts” that anesthetize rather than truly nurture.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“I sensed intuitively that living in harmony with the wild is humanity’s natural state, the state where we are at peace, where we feel most present and alive, and yet so much of the modern world seems designed to cut our species off from the nourishment that nature has provided for all of our existence.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“Cosmogenesis,”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“I had been going through an intense healing and regeneration process as well; just a few months earlier”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“Our species must let nature regenerate so we can breathe and live from her biodiversity.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“Wildness requires us to push up against our limits while never forgetting who is in charge. Nature needs two seemingly opposing things from us: To accept that we are at the mercy of its awesome power. And to rise to the challenge of protecting wildness at all costs.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“I made peace with the fact that the limits of today were not the same as the limits of yesterday.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“Instead, I had to learn the humbling practice of surrender.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“Swati played a pivotal role in my recovery—when you’re breaking apart, it’s an amazing gift to have someone holding you together.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“As Brian says so eloquently, the whole universe is inside of us and we are inside of it.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“What I learned from this wisdom is that tools and helpers are well and good, but if you become overly reliant on them, they can divert you from your own intelligence and skill.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“You see how they’re using the dogs for tracking? Don’t let the dog’s nose destroy your tracking skills.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“To me, that spoke of genius, that someone would purposely curtail technology in order to maintain their deep connection with the wild.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“One anthropologist I met theorized that San trackers purposely hadn’t constructed a bigger bow because they feared a larger weapon would lead them to rely less on their tracking skills, changing their relationship with the wild.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“Aural exostosis, or surfer’s ear—the condition I have in both of my ears—was found in Neanderthal skulls, suggesting they spent a significant amount of time diving and swimming in cold water.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“At the time I had begun experimenting with creating land art, which I’d felt drawn to after seeing the work of Andy Goldsworthy.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“Our aversion to discomfort causes us to miss out on so much. After all, the pain is fleeting, the threshold is in many ways illusory, and what lies on the other side of those first three minutes is a lifetime of wonder and discovery.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“I often tease her about being a “tidsoptimist,” a word of Swedish origin that refers to someone who always thinks they have more time than they do.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power

“This tameness felt like a kind of death to me—a dishonoring of those who had come before, a dishonoring of my wild heritage.”
― Craig Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World—A Memoir of Nature's Healing Power