Refugee from civilization, Wendell Beckwith fled a world-ranging career as a consulting engineer 17 years ago to design a life with nature.
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
John Muir
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Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.
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Richard Siken (via venebelle)
wow.
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Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.
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Richard Siken (via venebelle)
wow.
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When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.
—Billy, age 4.
(via awelltraveledwoman) National Geographic: “A couple living in a tent on their own eight acres of wilderness”.
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
