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“when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.”

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This book is a narrative journey that delves into the human spirit's capacity for endurance and optimism amidst challenging circumstances. more

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Martha Albrand

Martha Albrand was an American writer known for her delicate emotional descriptions and profound psychological insights. Her works often focus on the inner world and life experiences of women, particularly skilled at depicting the roles of women in the family and society. Born on September 8, 1910, she passed away on June 24, 1981. more

“Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your trip, you can still find yourself in a mud slide or a hurricane without a dry piece of clothing to your name. But those of us who have given our time and usually our hearts to outdoorsmen over the years know that, for many of them, it's not really a wilderness trip unless, MacGyver-like, they have to make a fire out of a pair of shorts, a glow stick, and a ketchup bottle; it's not really an adventure until someone gets airlifted out.”

“I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.”

Feels Said Feelings

Author:Pam Houston

“going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.”

Mind Humans Might Black Nature Adventure Caves Labyrinth Crawling Human Psyche Pitch Black

Author:Barbara Hurd

“caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.”

Nature Space Strange Adventure Fishes Expected Prophet Caves Rebirth Strange Things Epiphany Inscrutable Salamanders

Book:Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark

Source: Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark

“Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish!”

People Littles Long Doe Sometimes Lying Education Paint Appearance Woods Dislike

Author:Lady Hester Stanhope

“Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.”

Form Certain Identity Essence Vain

Book:Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time

Source: Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time

“My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.”

Stars Water Nature Sun Moon Rose Fruit Clock Jewels Moon And Stars Sun Moon Sun Moon And Stars

Author:Lady Hester Stanhope

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