In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I li… - Rebecca Solnit

"...Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, — for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lies, — do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature. Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations." Thoreau is playing with the biblical question about what it profits a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul. Lose the whole world, get lost in it, and find your soul.

Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone. (p153)

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.