“When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to do with us. The grace is in the separation, the distance, the sense of a self-sustaining way of life.” WayMeanSelfFactsGraceDistancePossessionSeparationAutonomySustainingWildness Book:More Scenes from the Rural Life Source: More Scenes from the Rural Life
“Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.” ThinkingWayStillsEnvironmentThreatSpeciesSolveNuclearGlobal WarmingDiminishVastness Author:Verlyn Klinkenborg
“Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes without changing ourselves, coasting, as we have always coasted, on the historic wave of human development. What it will take to wake us up is a wave of equal size traveling in the opposite direction. That wave is already on its way.” WorldWayHumansDevelopmentEqualOppositesSizeWaveDramaticAssumptionHistoricHuman DevelopmentDramatic Change Author:Verlyn Klinkenborg
