The Carry Home Quotes

“The most important thing,” he said, “is to be present in the face of fear.”
― Gary Ferguson, The Carry Home: Lessons From the American Wilderness

“what I’d done was allow my own reentry into the physical world.”
― Gary Ferguson, The Carry Home: Lessons From the American Wilderness

“The grief ran down the highways with me—a mix of tenderness and sorrow that shifted with every passing town, with the far side of every mountain pass, at every place where pavement turned to dirt.”
― Gary Ferguson, The Carry Home: Lessons From the American Wilderness

“The great German philosopher Friedrich Schiller was right to claim—as Jane too liked to say—that people are only completely human when they play.”
― Gary Ferguson, The Carry Home: Lessons From the American Wilderness

“Physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong,” she recited. “Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn’t mean much.”
― Gary Ferguson, The Carry Home: Lessons From the American Wilderness

“Larry Wells, at Brigham Young University, hit upon the idea of delivering the birds by air. In what has to be one of the most spectacularly woozy malfunctions ever to happen in the skies above the American Southwest, he found to his horror that when you toss Rhode Island Reds out of a small plane, well, let’s just say the windblast hammers them in the most awful way, leaving lifeless chicken bodies scattered about the sagebrush.”
― Gary Ferguson, The Carry Home: Lessons From the American Wilderness

“A friend in southern Utah has for years managed great comfort from the thought that on his own death and cremation, the molecules of his body will be released, taken up by hundreds of other life forms. “That’s immortality, brother!”
― Gary Ferguson, The Carry Home: Lessons From the American Wilderness