"The wilderness within us is actually the best part of us."

-- Stephen Marche

#Wilderness Quotes

“Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.”
“A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.”
“Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.”

Source : Barry N. Malzberg (2007). “Breakfast in the Ruins”, p.206, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“What is the emotion of an empty inbox? An unliked Post? An ignored dating app message? I think there's a great loneliness that much of our society is running from, and we search for relief in our phones and computers, our online communities, our social networks of friends.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said the only hope -and it's a strange thought - is if they put the button to launch the nuclear war behind a man's heart. The President, then, with a rusty knife, would have to cut out the man's heart, kill the man, to get to the button.”
“In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies.”

Source : "The Pulling Report". limsk.tripod.com. 1990.
“Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.”
“Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.”

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