Cheryl Strayed Quotes

As With The Mountains, There'd Been No Deserts Where I Grew Up, And Though I'd Gone On Day Hikes In A Couple Of Them, I Didn't Really Understand What Deserts Were. I'd Taken Them To Be Dry, Hot, And Sandy Places Full Of Snakes, Scorpions, And Cactuses. They Were Not That. They Were That And Also A Bunch Of Other Things. They Were Layered And Complex And Inexplicable And Analogous To Nothing. My New Existence Was Beyond Analogy, I Realized On That Second Day On The Trail. I Was In Entirely New Terrain.

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