Almost Anywhere Quotes

“There are places in life where no matter how frightening the path ahead may be, there is no viable alternative.”
― Krista Schlyer, Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense

“The need for wildness is written within our genes, in a language we are just beginning to understand. And in wilderness we will find the Rosetta Stone that can unravel this ancient language of our bones.”
― Krista Schlyer, Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense

“Taken as a whole, each generation of humanity has tended to believe that the land is a possession to dispense with as we please, without thought to the animals or plants who thrived there for millions of years or to future generations who might like-or perhaps need- to walk in an ancient forest or encounter the unmolested wild.”
― Krista Schlyer, Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense

“We carve our reality into the mountain rock to give it substance, to imbue our blood with a permanence that we know our fragile veins do not carry.”
― Krista Schlyer, Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense

“Dirt is eternal. And in this forest I begin to understand the fatal flaw of clean=good=heaven formula. This forest is full of filth and chaos and death, and it is also the very essence of life.”
― Krista Schlyer, Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense

“Darkness on the inside doesn’t leave because you find some brightness on the outside”
― Krista Schlyer, Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense

“I told Daniel the day after we met that I still had feelings for Bill. He said, “That’s okay, me too.” Then he proceeded to build a nest in my heart for himself.”
― Krista Schlyer, Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense

“human psychological imperative to believe our life span is as infinite as the boundless night sky. We clutch a comforting delusion as each step of time ticks past us that the moment will extend into eternity, which makes the hurt of our losses escalate, and conversely, the intensity of our joy increase.”
― Krista Schlyer, Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense

“life can throw knives in eyes that are searching for a reason to keep believing. And life makes no apologies. The very nature of life demands unsympathetically that you redefine beauty to include pain. We are the students—life and death are the masters. The only control we have is the will to see and be affected. As”
― Krista Schlyer, Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense

“As a pupil of wild things, I have come to understand that life must continue despite the cruelty of the climate. Lack of sunlight does not defeat the albino Indian pipe; scarcity of water does not destroy the creosote. Survival depends on evolution and evolution on a determined will to adapt. Over”
― Krista Schlyer, Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense