How To Catch A Mole Quotes

“A feeling of belonging brings with it a desire to build something to mark one's connection, and then, having built - a garden, a house, a career, a tunnel system - one has to protect those things from intruders, violently if necessary. We try to create an illusion of permanence, but there is none.”
― Marc Hamer, How To Catch A Mole

“Once you experience this feeling of simply existing you lose the need to ask why you exist.”
― Marc Hamer, How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature

“Life is so full of mystery, answers are so few, I do not trust them. I prefer unanswered questions. At the end of the answers there is usually a person who enjoys the power of appearing to know.”
― Marc Hamer, How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature

“Moles are tiny, they are cute, and like the rest of nature they do not care what we feel. They are devastating, and they always win.”
― Marc Hamer, How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature

“A feeling of belonging brings with it a desire to build something to mark one’s connection, and then, having built – a garden, a house, a career, a tunnel system – one has to protect those things from intruders, violently if necessary.”
― Marc Hamer, How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature

“I USE A whetstone to hone the blades and knives I use in my work. It was engineered to be hard and perfectly flat when I bought it years ago, but now has a smooth complex curve that tells the story of how I use it. A tool responds to the way it is used. Slowly over time it just naturally changes its shape to fit in with the way I do things. I just like to look at it sometimes. To hold it in my hand. While the knife wears away the stone, the stone also wears away the knife and over time their curves become matched. People do that too: when Peggy and I met we were scratchy and brittle and fought a lot, but over the years we have worn off each other’s spines, smoothed out the roughness, and our curves now match.”
― Marc Hamer, How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature

“The European mole is a protected species in Germany and Austria: gardeners there put up with them.”
― Marc Hamer, How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature

“Compassion is born at the interaction between joy and sadness. Compassion for your own life, forgiveness for your own mistakes, is the foundation.”
― Marc Hamer, How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature

“I have come to like things that are left unfinished. It’s the question that shines the light, that seeks. The answer’s often just a dim reflection of the vastness of the question. There are no answers that satisfy.”
― Marc Hamer, How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature