Going Feral: Field Notes on Wonder and Wanderlust
Heather Durham
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Sometimes, I am the beast in the darkness. Sometimes, I am the ghost.”
“That little owl with a call as steady as my heartbeat was telling anyone who would listen, ‘I am here.’ We were listening. We’re listening still.”
“I was starting to realize that just living simply, even deliberately, is not going wild.”
“I needed pain; I needed blood. Judge me if you want, but I’m talking about my own body. My own catharsis. About marking myself with beauty instead of ugliness.”
“Wilderness is the void that we fill with paradise or prison, heaven or hell. A valley we can flow through or struggle against. Maybe one day I would learn how to live in the in-between place called home.”
“Was I hiding from reality, on the outside looking in? Or, was I living my reality, on the outside looking out?”
“Those times in life when a mask falls away and everything makes sense, even if just for a moment, you pay attention. Sometimes they involve an actual blindfold.”
“This something sparked on a little island off the rocky coast of Maine would grow from a twinge to a hunger to a need you would spend years, a decade, a lifetime pursuing.”
“My mind flits around like that, darts and dives and twitches at times, and other times perches immobile, faintly ruffling in the breeze.”
“Maybe you were never actually lonely for other people. All along, maybe you were lonely for the earth.”
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