A Wilder Time Quotes

“Wilderness speaks with unmitigated honesty. Every belief and imagining that we bring with us as we enter such spaces also reflect back to us, but in a form that can be difficult to recognize.”
― William E. Glassley, A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice

“We are a speck on a flowing river of entropy that still gushes from an unfathomable beginning nearly fourteen billion years ago. We’re enthralled by a story we suspect the stars possess, but we remain unable to grasp its outline. We wander over landscapes, looking for histories the stones sequester, hoping there will be in them a flicker of an insight that will expose something worth cherishing.”
― William E. Glassley, A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice

“I was where I craved to be, walking alone in the presence of wild solitude, the treasure of aloneness seeping from the sunlight, from the blue waters, from the patterned stones.”
― William E. Glassley, A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice