Leave No Trace Quotes

“Do you remember our first appointment, when I told you how I’d self-harmed for years? You said something that stuck with me. You explained that some people—men, mostly—tend to deal with grief and trauma by turning their rage outwards onto the world—they get into fights, smash things up, kick off a war or two. But others—women, especially—tend to turn their anger inwards, inflicting our pain upon ourselves. You said that the mind sometimes shuts out traumatic memories that it literally cannot bear to remember, but that the body still keeps the score.”
― Jo Callaghan, Leave No Trace

“That’s the difference between us scientists and the police, professor. We ask for more data, but meanwhile they have to make life-and-death decisions. And then they have to live—or die—with the consequences.”
― Jo Callaghan, Leave No Trace

“Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” was popularised in the seventeenth century as a pictorial Shinto maxim, carved in the famous Tōshō-gū Shinto shrine in Nikkō, Japan.’ Lock pointed to the image that it projected before them. ‘This famous carving depicts three monkeys, one covering its eyes, another its ears and the third its mouth with their hands. The three wise monkeys, as they’re known, are generally believed to illustrate the idea of protecting oneself from seeing, hearing or speaking of unsavoury behaviour, building upon a Buddhist tenet of not dwelling upon evil thoughts. But in Western cultures, it has become a more negative rather than an aspirational proverb, implying criticism of those who choose to look away from or remain silent about immoral acts.”
― Jo Callaghan, Leave No Trace