“Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow’s grass.”
—Alexandra David-Néel
November 2011
October 2011
“Not all those who wander are lost”
—J. R. R. Tolkien
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“To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.”
—Kathryn Shulz in Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, one of 5 essential books on wrongness (via curiositycounts)
“The journey is my home”
—M. Rukeyser
“He who would travel happily must travel light.”
—Antoine de St. Exupery
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