“To inquire into the intricacies of a distant landscape, then, is to provoke thoughts about one’s own interior landscape, and the familiar landscapes of memory. The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.”— Barry López
“The sea, he thought, had treasured it’s memories deeper than the faithless land.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.”— David Rains Wallace
“The time of man is coming, and of this I am certain: neither death, nor life, nor the spirits, nor the present, nor the future, nor the stars, nor the abyss, nor any creature: nothing will keep from love those who live in our land, and by our land. The time of man is coming?men who will know the nobility of forests and the grace of trees, men who will know how to contemplate and heal and, lastly, how to love.”— Muriel Barbery
“When a handful of students came to RBG in 1970 and asked her to teach the first-ever Rutgers class on women and the law, she was ready to agree. It took her only about a month to read every federal decision and every law review article about women’s status. There wasn’t much. One popular textbook included the passage “Land, like woman, was meant to be possessed.”— Irin Carmon