"The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance."

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Source : David Douglas (1987). “Wilderness sojourn: notes in the desert silence”, Harper San Francisco

David Douglas

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“To Odin many a soul was driven, to Odin many a rich gift given.”

Source : Snorri Sturluson, Samuel Laing (1844). “The Heimskringla”, p.357, London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans
“the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.”
“I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.”
“I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.”

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“I think that, for sure, we as women should try and realize that it's more about having someone to share.”

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“Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has this passive derivation, this coming-into-being of thinking not out of nothing (as it likes to imagine) but out of some unthinkable something. But the most self-abstractivist or self-reductivist kind of thinking cannot tolerate even the notion (much less the traumatic experience or confrontation) of an incurable pathos, a weakness or blind-spot, within consciousness. The very idea is an insult to the autonomy or self-determinability of ego/will/reason.”
“To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.”
“The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.”

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