Baldinos Lock Quotes & Sayings

These bears were reimagined in place through a collective belief and need. I do not know why they were sculpted into being, but their power is palpable. I may be blind to what has been buried here or held inside these effigy mounds for thousands of years, but I can read the landscape like Braille through the tips of my fingers translating the script of grasses into a narrative I can understand. The bears and birds and snakes written on the body of the Earth through the hands of humans who dwelled here in the Upper Mississippi River Valley are a reminder that we form the future by being caretakers of our past. — Terry Tempest Williams

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism. — Richard Ford

She faced that possibility as she might the toy street from a high balcony, roller-coaster ride, feeding-time among the beasts in a zoo - any death-wish that can be consummated by some minimum gesture. — Thomas Pynchon

Modern man has lost the option of silence. — William S. Burroughs

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me. — Robin Wright

These people who build houses with 13 bathrooms and so on, there's something wrong with them. — David Cheriton

So often, we push away the voices closest to us. But once they're gone, we reach for them. — Mitch Albom