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Quote for Today: Matt Haig
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November 17, 2016 by katmcdaniel

Humans, as a rule, don’t like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: artists, definition, humanity, insanity, madness, Matt Haig, place, right, rules, sanity, society, taboo, The Humans, time
Half Buried in the Sand: Remembering Kolmanskop
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March 4, 2016 by katmcdaniel

Humans react profoundly to images of places, natural or man-made. Why are we moved by locations we have never visited? …
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Category: Exploring Culture, Photoblogs | Tags: buried, colonialism, desert, diamond trade, Earth, fragility, humanity, imagination, Kolmanskop, mutability, place, preserved, resilience
Quote for Today: Lorrie Moore
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May 8, 2015 by katmcdaniel

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them. ―Lorrie Moore, Like Life Public Domain Image …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: construction, humanity, inside, life, Like Life, live, Lorrie Moore, nest, place, pockets, pressure, resilience, safety, shelters
Quote for Today: Juhani Pallasmaa
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April 9, 2015 by katmcdaniel

How much more mysterious and inviting is the street of an old town with its altering realms of darkness and …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: darkness, homogeneity, imagination, inviting, Juhani Pallasma, light, mystery, paralysis, place, shadow, sharpness, The Eyes of the Skin, thought, vision
Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
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March 24, 2015 by katmcdaniel

When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: enough, home, identity, Jeanette Winterson, leaving, need, place, Providence, resilience, rug, self, struggle, wandering, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal
Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
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February 5, 2015 by katmcdaniel

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. —Henry …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Allegash and East Branch, Henry David Thoreau, howl, howling, humanity, imagination, journey, perception, place, self, traveler, wilderness
Quote for Today: John Burroughs
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November 14, 2014 by katmcdaniel

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: connectedness, destiny, humanity, John Burroughs, opportunity, place, self image, Studies in Nature and Literature, synchronicity, time, value

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