Wild Spectacle Quotes

“Some things ought to exist outside capitalism, and wildness should be one of them.”
― Janisse Ray, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

“In the wild world, relationship is evolutionary, time is geologic, beauty is intelligent. There we find ourselves under a powerful spell.”
― Janisse Ray, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

“Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not forgetting, and also is both.”
― Janisse Ray, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

“Most of us, most of our lives, are asked to live small. Most of us quit trying very young to live the bigness we know is possible.”
― Janisse Ray, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

“Although I was reared on a junkyard by parents who did not waste time hiking or camping, I knew pine trees and pitcher plants, bobcats and brown thrashers, as my people.”
― Janisse Ray, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

“Sometimes all we have is a little light that we can shine outward into a big darkness.”
― Janisse Ray, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans