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Now reading: American Pastoral by Philip Roth Another one from The Great American Novels list…

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Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. From the earliest times, human civilisation has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.

- W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn (1995), p.170

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Future destination.

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Sod huts in Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland.

Submitted by Tim Augustin.

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You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”

Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via thruhiker)

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Great charity shop find today - 1972 copy ofOn the Road.

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(via April and May: April & May hearts)

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As long as there is wilderness, I know there is a larger part of myself that I can always visit, vast tracts of territory lying dormant, craving exploration and providing sanctity.

Douglas Coupland - Life After God (via mountwanderlust)

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Looking forward to hopefully being out in the woods this weekend.

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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent (via lifeonsundays)

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Berskwell, Warwickshire | October 2012

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Berskwell, Warwickshire | October 2012

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Tree Flowers of Forest, Park, and Street  Walter E. Rogers, Olga A. Smith