The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
I’d trekked across deserts and snow, past trees and bushes and grasses and flowers of all shapes and sizes and colors, walked up and down mountains and over fields and glades and stretches of land I couldn’t possibly define, except to say that I had been there, passed over it, made it through.
Cheryl Strayed • Wild (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition): From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
There is this idea I return to all the time, talk about all the time, that comes from a quote by one of our late elders, Eddie Benton Banai. He said that to live an Anishinaabe life, to live according to our Seven Grandfather teachings, is to live a life where every footstep becomes a prayer. Isn’t that beautiful? You know how when you walk through... See more
Becoming Little Shell
The Twitya had a reputation. I already knew how cold the water would be, and this river would be much bigger than any of the others I had crossed. And it was getting closer. Two days had
J.R. Harris • Way Out There: Adventures of a Wilderness Trekker
Once, our worldview embedded each of us within a world in which all the parts were intricately interconnected. Each of us could be at the centre of this multidimensional web of interconnections, “trapped,” in a sense, by our total dependence on all of the strands enfolding and infusing us, yet deriving the ultimate security of place and belonging.
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