Quotes
Authors
Jennifer Pharr Davis
"Going into the woods, you can go as fast or as slow as you want. It's restorative. Even when I was young, the wilderness offered not only adventure but also therapy and peace: a place to be alone with your thoughts." --
Source : "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.
Jennifer Pharr Davis
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“Life isn’t how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.”
“The great achievement of Zen Buddhism, and all of its cultural expressions in painting or the tea ceremony or rock gardens, is a rejection of earlier Buddhist ideas which were dependent upon narrative - all the mythological creatures that populate the Buddhist galaxy. Zen insisted on the real located in nature.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never before reached.”
“If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.”
“The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.”
“When we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.”
“All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.”
Source : Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand
“Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but then they are calmed by the obscure location and the arrival of their kind. Keep the address to yourself, let the rabble fund it themselves. Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel no so terrible about my various emotional issues.”
